/*
* Copyright (c) 2002 J. Mallett. All rights reserved.
* You may do whatever you want with this file as long as
* the above copyright and this notice remain intact, along
* with the following statement:
* For the man who taught me vi, and who got too old, too young.
*/
/*
* Replaces str with a string consisting of str with match replaced with
* replstr as many times as can be done before the constructed string is
* maxsize bytes large. It does not free the string pointed to by str, it
* is up to the calling program to be sure that the original contents of
* str as well as the new contents are handled in an appropriate manner.
* If replstr is NULL, then that internally is changed to a nil-string, so
* that we can still pretend to do somewhat meaningful substitution.
* No value is returned.
*/
void
strnsubst(char **str, const char *match, const char *replstr, size_t maxsize)
{
char *s1, *s2, *this;
s1 = *str;
if (s1 == NULL)
return;
/*
* If maxsize is 0 then set it to to the length of s1, because we have
* to duplicate s1. XXX we maybe should double-check whether the match
* appears in s1. If it doesn't, then we also have to set the length
* to the length of s1, to avoid modifying the argument. It may make
* sense to check if maxsize is <= strlen(s1), because in that case we
* want to return the unmodified string, too.
*/
if (maxsize == 0) {
match = NULL;
maxsize = strlen(s1) + 1;
}
s2 = calloc(maxsize, 1);
if (s2 == NULL)
err(1, "calloc");