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Converting characters in a string???

Posted by metallo on August 29, 2001 at 9:49 AM

Here's a program description:

1)user enters a string: "Java Rules"
2)then enters a string containing
characters to be converted: "ae s" (characters in this case are 'a' 'e' '' and 's')
3)user then enters an output character that the characters to be converted will be converted to:"$"

therefore the string "Java Rules" will become "J$v$$Rul$$"

can anyone suggest an efficient algorithm to deal with this problem?