I'm still a novice so please bare with me. I have one table that is essentially a long list of find and replace values. First column being a "find" value and the 2nd Column being the "replace" value. The 2nd table is the table I'd like to search in. I can't come up with anything that works. 
#Table 1 contains the find and replace values;

@AoA = (
           [ "jones", "B0"],
           [ "smith", "B1"],
          [ "adrew", "B1"],
           [ "larry", "B3"],
    );

#the 2nd table contains the data that I want to search in.  

@AoA2 = (
       [ "jones", "AAAAA", "BBBBB", "CCCCC"]
        [ "aaaaa", "AAAAA", "larry", "CCCCC"] 
       [ "jones", "AAAAA", "BBBBBB","CCCCC"]
       [ "DDDDD", "AAAAA", "BBBBBB","larry"]
       [ "jones", "AAAAA", "andrew","CCCCC"]
       [ "jones", "smith", "BBBBBB","CCCCC"]
        
    );

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For example, I'd like to be able to find every instance of "jones" in table two and replace it's value with "BO" regardless of its position in the table. I appologize if this is unclear and very much appreciate any help or guidence. thank you, sean

In reply to find and replace project with values coming from a table by optiontrader

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