Replaces occurrences of substring1 in a string with substring2, in a specified scope. The search is case-sensitive.

The string, after making replacements.

String functions

Replace(string, substring1, substring2 [, scope ])

Find, REFind, ReplaceNoCase, ReplaceList, REReplace

To remove a string, specify the empty string ("") as substring2.

You do not need to escape comma characters in strings. For example, the following code deletes the commas from the sentence:

replace("The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy cow, dog, and 
cat.",",","","All")

<h3>Replace Example</h3>

<p>The Replace function returns <I>string</I> with <I>substring1</I> 
replaced by <I>substring2</I> in the specified scope. This 
is a case-sensitive search.

<cfif IsDefined("FORM.MyString")>
<p>Your original string, <cfoutput>#FORM.MyString#</cfoutput>
<p>You wanted to replace the substring <cfoutput>#FORM.MySubstring1#
</cfoutput>
with the substring <cfoutput>#FORM.MySubstring2#</cfoutput>.
<p>The result: <cfoutput>#Replace(FORM.myString, 
FORM.MySubstring1, FORM.mySubString2)#</cfoutput>
</cfif>