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Replace substrings in C

#include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> char* string_replace(char* source, size_t sourceSize, char* substring, char* with) { char* substring_source = strstr(source, substring); if (substring_source == NULL) { return NULL; } if (sourceSize < strlen(source) + (strlen(with) - strlen(substring))) { printf("Buffer size is too small\n"); return NULL; } memmove( substring_source + strlen(with), substring_source + strlen(substring), strlen(substring_source) - strlen(substring) + 1 ); memcpy(substring_source, with, strlen(with)); return substring_source + strlen(with); } int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { char str[100] = "The apples are delicious apples"; printf("%s\n", str); while(string_replace(str, 100, "apples", "hamburgers")); printf("%s\n", str); return 0; }

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