Replace a substring of a string with another string.

Replace a substring of a string with another string.

Name	Type	Default	Description
Return	char*		Pointer to the entry string. The entry string will be changed. There must be sufficient memory available.
str	char*	-	String, in which the replacement(s) are to be made.
search	char*	-	Character string to be replaced since v3.2.3 R2600, 08.08.2011 The search string may be a regular expression. Use prefix "regexp:" to mark a search string as a regular expression. since v3.3 R4000, 4. Jul 2013 With prefix "pcre:" a new machine for regular expressions is used. We recomment using this machine! Since v3.4 R9000 and CS5 only PCRE is used for regulare expressions. The prefix regexp: is still allowed but will use PCRE too. Only CS4 still uses the old GNU compatible implementation.
replace	char*	-	Character string to be entered
doAll	int	1	0 : Only replace the first occurrence 1 : Replace all occurrences
startPos	int	0	Start position for replacings, only valid for regular expressions.
compile_options	int	0	Additional options while compiling regular expression, see here
study_options	int	0	Additional options while studying compiled regular expression, see here
exec_options	int	0	Additional options while executing regular expression, see here

strcpy (str, "Matthias");

strreplace (str, "tt", "t") returns "Mathias"
strreplace (str, "a", "aAa") returns "MaAathiaAas"

Find all 3-digit substrings enclosed by letters and swap this letters.

int main ()
{
    char		regex	[200];
    char		repl	[200];
    String		str		= string::alloc ();
    char		txt		[20000];

    // Regular expression
    strcpy (regex, "pcre:");
    strcat (regex, "([a-z])([1-9]{3})([a-z])");

    // Replace
    strcpy (repl, "\\3\\2\\1");

    // Text
    frame::gettext (gFrame, str);
    strcpy (txt, string::get (str));

    // Real work
    strreplace (txt, regex, repl);
    frame::replace (gFrame, txt);

    return 0;
}

Color all tags of a given tagged text.

int main ()
{
    String		str	= string::alloc ();
    char		tmp	[20000];
    char		col	[500];
    int			r	=255, g = 0, b = 0;
    int			ro	= 8;
    int			go	= 16;
    int			bo	= 24;

    textmodel::gettext (str);
    strcpy (tmp, string::get (str));

    strreplace (tmp, "pcre:(<[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_]*\\:(<)?)((([^><])|(\\\\>)|(\\\\<))*)(>)*", "\nccccColorRot\\0ccccColor");
    strreplace (tmp, "<", "<0x003C>");

    while (strstrpos (tmp, "ccccColorRot") >= 0)
    {
        sprintf (col, "<cColor:%d, %d, %d><cFont:Verdana,Italic>", r, g, b);

        if (r+ro > 255 	|| r +ro < 0) 	ro = (-1)*ro;
        if (g+go > 255 	|| g +go < 0) 	go = (-1)*go;
        if (b+bo > 255 	|| b +bo < 0) 	bo = (-1)*bo;

        r 	= r + ro;
        g 	= g + go;
        b 	= b + bo;

        strreplace (tmp, "ccccColorRot", col, 0);
    }
    strreplace (tmp, "ccccColor", "<cFont:><cColor:>");

    textmodel::replace (tmp);

    return 0;
}

Here you will find a InDesign® test document (CS5.5):

Test document

Regular expression working with "pcre:" but not with "regexp:"

int main ()
{
    char		str [512];

    strcpy (str, "abc11188888#defgh11177777#hijklmn11166666#opqäöü55555#qwertzu11144444#XYZ");

    wlog ("", "PRE	: '%s'\n", str);

    strreplace (str, "pcre:([0-9]{6})(#)", "\\2\\1", 1);
    wlog ("", "POST	: '%s'\n", str);

    return 0;
}

Since

Version 1.2.1 (12 September 2005) Regular expressions since v3.2.3 R2600, 08.08.2011
Regular expressions since using "pcre:" since v3.3.1 R4000, 4. Jul 2013 compile_options, study_options, exec_options since v4.0.5 R20456, 10. Oct 2017

Available

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