Replaces a piece of a text string with a different string.

Parameters

text String (required) - A piece of text to be searched.

start_position Number (required) - Position within the string to begin the search.

num_characters Number (required) - Number of characters in original string to be replaced.

replacement String (required) - String to replace num_characters with.

Returns

String

Examples

// replaces 'survey' with 'inspection'
REPLACE("Data collection survey", 17, 6, "inspection")

// returns "Data collection inspection"