Name: joT67522 Date: 09/05/97


There is no way to easily change a character or a string within
a StringBuffer, but it would be vastly easier to add one than
to force everyone to do multiple convert to character string
and then append to accoplish the same task.

There are two basic types of replace, one which changes the
length of the string and the other that doesn't, each requires
their own methods under the general replace name.

Methods that do not change StringBuffer length.

StringBuffer.replace(int, char) - replaces charAt int with char
StringBuffer.replace(int, String) - replaces the characters
             starting at int with String

Note: one must consider if int + String.length exceeds
the current length of the StringBuffer whether this is an error
or not.

Methods that do change StringBuffer length

StringBuffer.replace(int1, int2, String) - replaces the int2
             characters starting at int1 with String

Note: This is esentialy a delete followed by an insert.

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