From d6d5885c1567454754a0d260521bafa0bd5e7fdb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 15:32:24 +0200
Subject: Add replaceStrings primop

This is a generalisation of replaceChars in Nixpkgs.
---
 doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

(limited to 'doc')

diff --git a/doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml b/doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml
index cb987ca02..099f90e78 100644
--- a/doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml
@@ -733,6 +733,23 @@ removeAttrs { x = 1; y = 2; z = 3; } [ "a" "x" "z" ]</programlisting>
   </varlistentry>
 
 
+  <varlistentry><term><function>builtins.replaceStrings</function>
+  <replaceable>from</replaceable> <replaceable>to</replaceable> <replaceable>s</replaceable></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Given string <replaceable>s</replaceable>, replace
+    every occurrence of the strings in <replaceable>from</replaceable>
+    with the corresponding string in
+    <replaceable>to</replaceable>. For example,
+
+<programlisting>
+builtins.replaceStrings ["oo" "a"] ["a" "i"] "foobar"
+</programlisting>
+
+    evaluates to <literal>"fabir"</literal>.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
   <varlistentry><term><function>builtins.seq</function>
   <replaceable>e1</replaceable> <replaceable>e2</replaceable></term>
 
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