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+/* $xMach: strnsubst.c,v 1.3 2002/02/23 02:10:24 jmallett Exp $ */
+
+/*
+ * 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.
+ */
+
+#include <sys/cdefs.h>
+__RCSID("$FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/xargs/strnsubst.c,v 1.6 2002/06/22 12:58:42 jmallett Exp $");
+
+#include <err.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+
+void strnsubst(char **, const char *, const char *, size_t);
+
+/*
+ * Replaces str with a string consisting of str with match replaced with
+ * replstr as many times as can be done before the constructed string is
+ * maxsize bytes large. It does not free the string pointed to by str, it
+ * is up to the calling program to be sure that the original contents of
+ * str as well as the new contents are handled in an appropriate manner.
+ * If replstr is NULL, then that internally is changed to a nil-string, so
+ * that we can still pretend to do somewhat meaningful substitution.
+ * No value is returned.
+ */
+void
+strnsubst(char **str, const char *match, const char *replstr, size_t maxsize)
+{
+ char *s1, *s2, *this;
+
+ s1 = *str;
+ if (s1 == NULL)
+ return;
+ s2 = calloc(maxsize, 1);
+ if (s2 == NULL)
+ err(1, "calloc");
+
+ if (replstr == NULL)
+ replstr = "";
+
+ if (match == NULL || replstr == NULL || maxsize == strlen(s1)) {
+ strncpy(s2, s1, maxsize);
+ s2[maxsize - 1] = '\0';
+ goto done;
+ }
+
+ for (;;) {
+ this = strstr(s1, match);
+ if (this == NULL)
+ break;
+ if ((strlen(s2) + ((uintptr_t)this - (uintptr_t)s1) +
+ (strlen(replstr) - 1)) > maxsize && *replstr != '\0') {
+ strncat(s2, s1, maxsize);
+ s2[maxsize - 1] = '\0';
+ goto done;
+ }
+ strncat(s2, s1, (uintptr_t)this - (uintptr_t)s1);
+ strcat(s2, replstr);
+ s1 = this + strlen(match);
+ }
+ strcat(s2, s1);
+done:
+ *str = s2;
+ return;
+}
+
+#ifdef TEST
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+int
+main(void)
+{
+ char *x, *y, *z, *za;
+
+ x = "{}%$";
+ strnsubst(&x, "%$", "{} enpury!", 255);
+ y = x;
+ strnsubst(&y, "}{}", "ybir", 255);
+ z = y;
+ strnsubst(&z, "{", "v ", 255);
+ za = z;
+ strnsubst(&z, NULL, za, 255);
+ if (strcmp(z, "v ybir enpury!") == 0)
+ printf("strnsubst() seems to work!\n");
+ else
+ printf("strnsubst() is broken.\n");
+ printf("%s\n", z);
+ free(x);
+ free(y);
+ free(z);
+ free(za);
+ return 0;
+}
+#endif