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    Question Strings Find and Replace

    Is it Posible to do something like the following with a string:


    Find all the word "hello" in the string and replace them with "bye"

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    Yes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyberfish View Post
    Yes.
    Perfect answer, lol. Short and to the point, eh cyberfish?

    Code:
    void find_and_replace(std::string& source, std::string const& find, std::string const& replace)
    {
    	for(std::string::size_type i = 0; (i = source.find(find, i)) != std::string::npos;)
    	{
    		source.replace(i, find.length(), replace);
    		i += replace.length() - find.length() + 1;
    	}
    }
    
    std::string s("I would like to say hello");
    find_and_replace(s, "hello", "bye");
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    Perfect answer, lol. Short and to the point, eh cyberfish?
    Yes, because s/he hasn't demonstrated any effort to trying to find an answer him/herself. A simple Google search will probably turn up 10 repetitions of the same answer in a few milliseconds.

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    Exclamation

    Believe me Ive searched

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    What search terms did you use?

    How about "C++ string replace"?

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyberfish View Post
    Yes, because s/he hasn't demonstrated any effort to trying to find an answer him/herself. A simple Google search will probably turn up 10 repetitions of the same answer in a few milliseconds.
    I cut him some slack on this one, because I remember having issues with it.

    A) The documentation explains how to replace if you know the positions in the string, or the first occurrence, and usually doesn't include an explanation on how to use the iterators to replace all occurrences.

    B) I ran into a few flawed search and replace functions which didn't take into account the length changes when you replace previous occurrences, and resulted in infinite loops.

    I didn't actually get a chance to test mine very much. Someone quickly pasting their own known working string search and replace function might go a long way.
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