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[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2007, Ben Duncan wrote:
>But, I need to be able to manipulate the array with values
>latter on. Since strings are immutable, I do not think I can
>do this.

This is really fairly easy, and probably more efficient than
having to deal with the subscripting

# to replace the ith character in a table of strings using an
# intermediate value to make typing easier:

s = stringTable[row]
stringTable[row] = s[:i] + newchar + s[i+1:]

Or as a function being careful to deal with a string longer
than one character long.

def setChar(table, c, i, j):
	s = table[j]
	table[j] = s[:i] + c[0] + s[i+1:]

Bill
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