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author | Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> | 2015-06-26 01:02:22 +0300 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-06-26 03:00:40 +0300 |
commit | 94df290404cd0da8016698bf3f398410f29d9a64 (patch) | |
tree | 3a1af17ab47e65b86d51f3d6511b1f5dc0ed4bc0 /lib | |
parent | 9d2a8da006fcbf2dea663c095f0a0088dfbbec15 (diff) | |
download | linux-94df290404cd0da8016698bf3f398410f29d9a64.tar.xz |
lib/string.c: introduce strreplace()
Strings are sometimes sanitized by replacing a certain character (often
'/') by another (often '!'). In a few places, this is done the same way
Schlemiel the Painter would do it. Others are slightly smarter but still
do multiple strchr() calls. Introduce strreplace() to do this using a
single function call and a single pass over the string.
One would expect the return value to be one of three things: void, s, or
the number of replacements made. I chose the fourth, returning a pointer
to the end of the string. This is more likely to be useful (for example
allowing the caller to avoid a strlen call).
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r-- | lib/string.c | 17 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c index bb3d4b6993c4..13d1e84ddb80 100644 --- a/lib/string.c +++ b/lib/string.c @@ -849,3 +849,20 @@ void *memchr_inv(const void *start, int c, size_t bytes) return check_bytes8(start, value, bytes % 8); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(memchr_inv); + +/** + * strreplace - Replace all occurrences of character in string. + * @s: The string to operate on. + * @old: The character being replaced. + * @new: The character @old is replaced with. + * + * Returns pointer to the nul byte at the end of @s. + */ +char *strreplace(char *s, char old, char new) +{ + for (; *s; ++s) + if (*s == old) + *s = new; + return s; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(strreplace); |