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   substitute

   /ˈsʌbstɪtjuːt/

   noun

   • 1. a person or thing acting or serving in place of another: "soya milk is used as a substitute for dairy milk"
   • ▪ a person or thing that becomes the object of love or another emotion which is deprived of its natural outlet: "a father substitute"
   • 2. a sports player nominated as eligible to replace another after a match has begun: "Stewart was the Rovers substitute"
   • 3. a deputy: "a sheriff substitute"

   verb

   • 1. use or add in place of: "dried rosemary can be substituted for the fresh herb" Similar exchangeuse as a replacementswitchreplace withuse instead ofuse as an alternative touse in place ofuse in preference totradeinformal:swap
   • ▪ act or serve as a substitute: "I found someone to substitute for me"
   • ▪ replace (someone or something) with another: "customs officers substituted the drugs with another substance"
   • ▪ replace (an atom or group in a molecule, especially a hydrogen atom) with another: "three of the hydrogen atoms of the methane molecule have been substituted by chlorine, bromine or iodine atoms"
   • 2. replace (a sports player) with a substitute during a match: "he was substituted eleven minutes from time"

   Word Origin late Middle English (denoting a deputy or delegate): from Latin substitutus ‘put in place of’, past participle of substituere, based on statuere ‘set up’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. substitutability noun
   • 2. substitutable adjective
   • 3. substitutive adjective

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2. stackoverflow.com › questions › 4715831Why is #define bad and what is the proper substitute? [closed]

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 4715831

   Feb 5, 2016 · Define it as a constant variable. It is a good programming practice. const wchar_t *dItemName = L"CellPhone"; In case you need to know the lenght of your string somewhere later, then define it as an array: const wchar_t dItemName[] = L"CellPhone"; Also, why #define is bad: It transforms all places where you use word dItemName to L"CellPhone ...

3. stackoverflow.com › questions › 10261803Alternatives to using "#define" in C++? Why is it frowned upon?

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 10261803

   #define isn't inherently bad, it's just easy to abuse. For something like a version string it works fine, although a const char* would be better, but many programmers use it for much more than that. Using #define as a typedef for example is silly when, in most cases, a typedef would be better.

4. stackoverflow.com › questions › 2333994How to avoid variable substitution in Oracle SQL Developer

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   When I try to execute this statement in Oracle SQL Developer 2.1 a dialog box "Enter Substitution Variable" pops up asking for a replacement value for TOBAGO, update t set country = 'Trinidad and ...

5. stackoverflow.com › questions › 9452108How to use string.replace () in python 3.x - Stack Overflow

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 9452108

   Feb 26, 2012 · Official doc for str.replace of Python 3. official doc: Python 3's str.replace str.replace(old, new[, count])

6. stackoverflow.com › questions › 51874132Replacing function call (and not declaration) with define C

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 51874132

   Aug 16, 2018 · #define doesn't require braces - only use them if you need to handle parameters The syntax doesn't include a semicolon: #define test printf Calling a function like printf() like this (somewhat obscured) can be risky, especially if the caller doesn't expect that their string is used as a format string.

7. stackoverflow.com › questions › 21261888vim: substitute characters from backreference - Stack Overflow

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 21261888

   Jan 21, 2014 · I want to do the following subtitutions in vim: I have a string (with spaces eventually) and a number at the end of the line. I want to create a C #define with that string in uppercase + a prefix +

8. stackoverflow.com › questions › 7884618need help for substitute function in scheme - Stack Overflow

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 7884618

   Nov 21, 2011 · I need to write the function that can substitute the variables in the pairs of list into the list. for example (subsitute-var '((p #t) (Q #f)) '(P and Q or Q)) I have wrote some code (define

9. stackoverflow.com › questions › 20541022using #define to substitute in a continuous string

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   Dec 12, 2013 · using #define and # for stringizing to convert another macro constant to string Hot Network Questions Identify set: "dino ambush" with orange car

10. stackoverflow.com › questions › 7841358Reading variables with C preprocessor - Stack Overflow

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    Mar 17, 2016 · I'm running into the following problem when trying to use concatenation with the C preprocessor: #define substitute(id) var##id int main() { int var0 = 999; int var1 = 998; int var2...

11. stackoverflow.com › questions › 17561274Substitute Function in Excel VBA for cell range - Stack Overflow

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    Jul 10, 2013 · I have to replace one character with another in Excel file. I have used following Replace function, but due to exceeds of 1024 character limit in some cells, it stops there. Sub Replace() With