Replace part of a string with another string

Question

Is it possible in C++ to replace part of a string with another string?

Basically, I would like to do this:

QString string(\"hello $name\");
string.re         


        

Answer 1

I use generally this:

std::string& replace(std::string& s, const std::string& from, const std::string& to)
{
    if(!from.empty())
        for(size_t pos = 0; (pos = s.find(from, pos)) != std::string::npos; pos += to.size())
            s.replace(pos, from.size(), to);
    return s;
}

It repeatedly calls std::string::find() to locate other occurrences of the searched for string until std::string::find() doesn't find anything. Because std::string::find() returns the position of the match we don't have the problem of invalidating iterators.