For string, find and replace

Question

Finding some text and replacing it with new text within a C string can be a little trickier than expected. I am searching for an algorithm which is fast, and that has a smal

Answer 1

here is a nice code

#include 
#include 

char *replace_str(char *str, char *orig, char *rep)
{
  static char buffer[4096];
  char *p;

  if(!(p = strstr(str, orig)))  // Is 'orig' even in 'str'?
    return str;

  strncpy(buffer, str, p-str); // Copy characters from 'str' start to 'orig' st$
  buffer[p-str] = '\0';

  sprintf(buffer+(p-str), "%s%s", rep, p+strlen(orig));

  return buffer;
}

int main(void)
{
  puts(replace_str("Hello, world!", "world", "Miami"));

  return 0;
}