If adding too many concurrent STRING-replace it simply returns a blank string.

The following example

{STRING(Replace,{STRING(Replace,{STRING(Replace,{STRING(Replace,{STRING(Replace,TestString1,Te,X)},s,X)},tS,X)},tr,X)},in,X)}

...should have returned XXXXXg, but returns blank.

If changed to:

{STRING(Replace,{STRING(Replace,{STRING(Replace,{STRING(Replace,TestString1,Te,X)},s,X)},tS,X)},tr,X)}

...then it correctly returns XXXXing


It's a specific problem since I have a XML file that needs to be stripped of namespaces before writing to a file (since Visualcron still doesn't handle XML namespaces 🙂 ). Unfortunately this XML file contains 5 different namespaces, and so I need to use 5 concurrent STRING-replace operations.

I run VC 5.5.3

Best regards,
René

You can try using the | as a delimiter in stead of the ,

{STRING(Replace|xxxxx|xxx|xxx)}

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At the moment, for performance, VisualCron only goes 4 levels of Variables down.

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Ok, you can do it in two steps. Use a temp variable in the 1st step and parse it to a string (checkbox: translate to constant when running). In the 2nd step use this temp variable again and to the next replacements.
Because of the parsing in the 1st step you do not have 5 levels deep anymore.

Regards,
Erik

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Btw, what do you mean here, on what level and how?

It's a specific problem since I have a XML file that needs to be stripped of namespaces before writing to a file (since Visualcron still doesn't handle XML namespaces 🙂 ). Unfortunately this XML file contains 5 different namespaces, and so I need to use 5 concurrent STRING-replace operations.

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Thanks for the clarification on the limits.

Regarding reading a node in an XML file, then I get a namespace error if the XML file contains namespace tags, like: <ns1:donkeymonkey>. ...so I need to strip the XML for namespace tags.

Currently I run 5.5.3, but this was still a bug in 5.5.5 before downgrading due to FTP errors.

Best regards

I am quite sure that this is fixed in later version. Could you send us the file you are trying to read?

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Hereby send 🙂