String manipulation - Replace not working.

jspencer · May 23, 2003

Woe is me! Can anyone see why this seemingly benign replace call won't actually replace anything?

Code:

Dim sText As System.String = "Wordl"
sText.Replace("Wordl", "world") 
Console.WriteLine(sText)

Prints 'Wordl' rather than the 'world' that I expected.

It's bizarre!

Thanks for any help.

Justin

PlausiblyDamp · May 23, 2003

Visual Basic:

Dim sText As System.String = "Wordl"
sText = sText.Replace("Wordl", "world")        'This line changed
Console.WriteLine(sText)

jspencer · May 23, 2003

Thanks m8. I just twigged to that one.

I've been looking at this screen for too long... Aarrrrhhhhhh!!!!!