Re: how to replace a substring in a string using C?

Netocrat wrote:
<snip>

char *replace(const char *s, const char *old, const char *new)
{
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    ret = malloc(i + count * (newlen - oldlen));
    if (ret == NULL)
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);


Whoa, what's this? Just return NULL. It's massively rude to terminate the program in a function like this. It's *likely* the caller can't respond to out-of-memory either (and won't check for it if they're sloppy), but making the decision here is silly.

S.
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