NAME

       strsub - substitute first occurence of pattern with another string

SYNOPSIS

       #include <publib.h>
       char *strsub(char *str, const char *pat, const char *sub);

DESCRIPTION

       strsub  finds  the  first  occurence  of the pattern pat in the string str (using a method
       similar to strstr(3), i.e., no regular expressions), and replaces it  with  sub.   If  pat
       does not occur in str, no substitution is made.

       Of course, if sub is an empty string, the pattern is deleted from the string.

RETURN VALUE

       strsub  returns  a  pointer  to  the first character after the substitution, or NULL if no
       substitution was made.

EXAMPLE

       To substitute up to two occurences of "foo" with  "bar"  in  a  line,  one  might  do  the
       following.

            p = strsub(line, "foo", "bar");
            if (p != NULL)
                 strsub(line, "foo", "bar");

SEE ALSO

       publib(3), strstr(3), strgsub(3)

AUTHOR

       Lars Wirzenius (lars.wirzenius@helsinki.fi)