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title="UNCONFIRMED - BASIC: Replace's Start argument needs clarifying"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132390">132390</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>BASIC: Replace's Start argument needs clarifying
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<th>Product</th>
<td>LibreOffice
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<th>Version</th>
<td>unspecified
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>All
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<th>OS</th>
<td>All
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<th>Status</th>
<td>UNCONFIRMED
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>normal
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>medium
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<th>Component</th>
<td>Documentation
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>mikekaganski@hotmail.com
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<td>olivier.hallot@libreoffice.org
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<pre>Replace's Start argument is documented in help [1] as "Numeric expression that
indicates the character position within the string where the search shall
begin. The maximum allowed value is 65535."
But it's not only that; it is also the start of the substring to be returned.
This is how it's implemented, and also consistent with analogous VBA function
[2].
E.g., Replace("ABCDE", "C", "*", 2) will return "B*DE", starting from the
position 2. This needs to be documented in help.
[1] <a href="https://help.libreoffice.org/6.4/en-US/text/sbasic/shared/replace.html">https://help.libreoffice.org/6.4/en-US/text/sbasic/shared/replace.html</a>
[2]
<a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/Language/Reference/User-Interface-Help/replace-function">https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/Language/Reference/User-Interface-Help/replace-function</a></pre>
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