Substring replacement

[Michael McGarry]

Hi,

Is there a standard C library routine that does substring replacement?

i.e. src: "mySpecialString" ---> dest: "myDullString"

Something like this
strsubrepl(src,dest,"Special", "Dull");??

Thanks for any help,

Michael

 

[Michael Mair]

Hi,

Is there a standard C library routine that does substring replacement?

i.e. src: "mySpecialString" ---> dest: "myDullString"

Something like this
strsubrepl(src,dest,"Special", "Dull");??

No.
Reasons: You can easily roll one yourself and may take advantage
of special structures this way.
The most recent thread about string replacement I can recall started at
<[email protected]>

Cheers
Michael

 

[Flash Gordon]

Is there a standard C library routine that does substring replacement?

<snip>

No.

 

[jagadeeshbp]

Hi,
I think there is no direct call, as mentioned by others. But just
using strtok() - get the prefix, replace the rest of the string and
re-concatenate the prefix and the replaced string - the same can be
achieved.

 

[Michael Mair]

Hi,
I think there is no direct call, as mentioned by others. But just
using strtok() - get the prefix, replace the rest of the string and
re-concatenate the prefix and the replaced string - the same can be
achieved.

I do not think that strtok() is the right tool for the job as it
looks only for delimiter characters but not delimiter strings;
you still need something to match the rest of the string, so
you can just go with strstr().
strstr() definitely is a safe function which can be easily used,
quite in contrast to the somewhat obscure semantics of strtok().

Cheers
Michael