# String wont replace after using Replace
**URL:** https://discussions.unity.com/t/string-wont-replace-after-using-replace/535759
**Category:** Scripting
**Tags:** Scripting
**Created:** [April 24, 2014, 7:07am UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/string-wont-replace-after-using-replace/535759 "2014-04-24T07:07:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@light766](https://discussions.unity.com/u/light766)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2014, 7:07am UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/string-wont-replace-after-using-replace/535759/1 "2014-04-24T07:07:46Z")
been debugging this for quite some time and still cant find a solution, the text is adding the ";"s and removes them in the end, the problem here is that the Replace is not replacing, so at the end the text remains the same. 😵💫
```auto
public void SomeoneLeft(string user){
if(photonView.isMine){
print (user);
teamOneText += ";";
teamOneText = ";" + teamOneText;
teamOneText.Replace(";" + user + ";",";;");
teamOneText = teamOneText.Substring(0, teamOneText.Length - 1);
teamOneText = teamOneText.Substring(1);
teamTwoText += ";";
teamTwoText = ";" + teamTwoText;
teamTwoText.Replace(";" + user + ";",";;");
teamTwoText = teamTwoText.Substring(0, teamTwoText.Length - 1);
teamTwoText = teamTwoText.Substring(1);
}
}
```
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### Author:  [@devandart](https://discussions.unity.com/u/devandart)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2014, 7:15am UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/string-wont-replace-after-using-replace/535759/2 "2014-04-24T07:15:48Z")
The Replace() method returns the replaced string like Substring reuturns a substring, so you have to write
```auto
teamOneText = teamOneText.Replace(";" + user + ";",";;");
```
cheers
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### Author:  [@light766](https://discussions.unity.com/u/light766)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2014, 7:19am UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/string-wont-replace-after-using-replace/535759/3 "2014-04-24T07:19:25Z")
yup, I just found that out, haha i feel so stupid, but thanks man!