Why does the following not work? replace("2021-06-29T23:14:20", "-" => "", ":" => "")

Because replace only takes one pat => r argument. Try putting them in a tuple.

In the official document, the following works: replace([1, 2, 1, 3], 1=>0, 2=>4, count=2)

That’s the method for an array. You can’t do that in a string (and it turns out, making a vector of substitution pairs won’t help): [image] Perform multiple replacements on a string in a single pass Performance I have a couple of scripts which perform multiple replacement…

Good to know this. Thank you, @Sukera

Converting string to array and back to string: str = "2021-06-29T23:14:20" join(replace(split(str,""), "-" => "", ":" => "")) "20210629T231420"

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gustaphe June 30, 2021, 4:31am 4

That’s the method for an array. You can’t do that in a string (and it turns out, making a vector of substitution pairs won’t help):

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