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Programming-Idioms

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  • Pascal

Idiom #63 Replace fragment of a string

Assign to x2 the value of string x with all occurrences of y replaced by z.
Assume occurrences of y are not overlapping.

uses SysUtils;
x2 := StringReplace(x, y, z, [rfReplaceAll]);
const x2 = x.replaceAll(y, z);
var x2 = x.replace(new RegExp(y, 'g'), z);

This works well only if y doesn't contain special regexp characters.
#include <string>
constexpr std::string ReplaceAllCopy(const std::string& x, const std::string& y, const std::string& z) {
	auto x2 = x;
	size_t i = 0;

	while (true) {
		i = x2.find(y, i);
		if (i == std::string::npos) break;
		x2.replace(i, y.length(), z);
	}
	return x2;
}

constexpr version which doesn't depend on regex

New implementation...