Replace complete words by another string

Hi,
I'm searching for a possibility to replace complete words inside a string.
For example I want to replace "quick" by "slow":
"The quick brown fox is running quicker then the slow brown fox".
The result shall be:
"The slow brown fox is running quicker then the slow brown fox".
The problem is, that the built in "Replace"-Method would also replace "quicker" by "browner".
Furthermore, words beetween different signs (e.g. , . ; : - ! " ? ') shall also be found as complete word.
I already searched for a FM but didn't find anything. Regular expressesions are also not possible because we are running on 6.40.
Maybe anybody can help me with a simple FM or something else.
Best regards,
Stefan

Hi Stefan,
There is a crude way of doing this....with lots of loops..
You can use the SPLIT statement
SPLIT dobj AT sep INTO
{ {result1 result2 ...} | {TABLE result_tab} }
[IN {CHARACTER|BYTE} MODE].
and break the sentence into words using space as delimiter. Once you have all the words in a internal table, you can loop through it and compare each word with the word you want.
This will solve the problem, but will not be performant enough.
Regards,
Vinodh

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