Remove multiple characters from a string.

Remove multiple characters from a string. The function replaces all repetitions of each character in repl in str. With the repl string "abc", all "aa", "bb", "cc" "aaa", "bbb", "ccc", ... are shortened to one character each.

Name	Type	Default	Description
Return	char*		str ist returned for your convinience
str	char*	-	source string
repl	char*	0	Replace all multiples of all letters of this string. Only ASCIIs are allowed here! 0 : Replace are multiple blanks ( ) by single blanks.

Here's an example of a string compare script

char * prepare_string (char * str)
{
    char		*	result = alloc (strlen (str)+10);

    get_netweight_str (result, str, 1, 1);
    strreplace (result, "\t", "  ");
    strreplace_multis (result, " \t");

    return result;
}

int main ()
{
    return strcmp (prepare_string (gDocumentValue), prepare_string (gDataPoolValue));
}

Since

v4.0.5 R20104, 1 Sep 2017

Available

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