How To Replace A String Into Another String In A C++ App

How can I use replace() method of std::string in a C++ app? How can I replace a string into another string? Can we replace a char array into a string? How can I replace a number of chars into a string? Is it possible to replace a string with a substring of another string? Here are the answers with C++ examples.

First, let’s recap on how strings work in a C++ app

In addition to int, float, double there is another data type, string that we use for alphanumeric variables. In C++ there are several typedefs for common character types. String types are defined in the header <string>.

strings are the string class for byte characters represented with string. Usually, alphanumeric characters are stored and displayed in string forms. In other words, string stores the alphanumeric text with 1-byte chars, called ASCII chars. Strings are the instantiation of the basic_string class template that uses char as the character type. Simply we can define a string as below,

string has methods to assign, copy, align, replace or to operate with other strings. These methods can be used in all string methods with their appropriate syntax. We can replace a string into another string in different methods. Let’s see some of most used methods.

Replacing a String into another String with the replace() Method

The replace() method of std::string, replaces the part of the string indicated by either start and end index positions with a new string. That means the string between start and end index positions will be replaced with a new string. We can use replace() method with the range parameter, just give the start position index and replacement count to define range (start_position, replace_count, where to replace in range ) and the string to be replaced (replace_str). Here is syntax of a replace() method,

Here is a example how we can use replace() method with in this given syntax, see example below,

and the output will be,

Getting your C++ app to replace a Char Array into a String with the replace() Method

replace() method of std::string, replaces the part of the string indicated by either start and end index positions with a new string. That means the string between start and end index positions will be replaced with a new string. We can use replace() method with the range parameter, just give the start position index and replacement count to define range (start_position, replace_count, where to replace in range ) and the string to be replaced (replace_str). Here is syntax of a replace() method,

Here is a example how we can use replace() method with in this given syntax, see example below,

and the output will be,

Replacing a given quantity of Chars into a String with the replace() Method

replace() method of std::string, can be used to replace chars in given numbers. To do this we should use parameters to indicate by either start and end index positions (start_position, end_position, where to replace) and the char count (char_count) and the char in ‘ ‘ (replace_char). Here is syntax of a replace() method,

Here is a example how we can use replace() method with in this given syntax, see example below,

and the output will be,

Replacing a Substring in a C++ app into another String with the replace() Method

replace() method of std::string, can be used to replace a substring into another string. To do this we should use parameters to indicate by either start and end index positions (start_position, end_position, where to replace) and the char count (char_count) and the sub string. Here is syntax of a replace() method,

Here is a example how we can use replace() method with in this given syntax, see example below,

and the output will be,

Note that, this replace method can be used with std::wstring too.