String_WordReplaceA

Globally replace whole words in the source text and write the result to the destination. This is the Ansi version of String_WordReplace, String_WordReplaceW is the Unicode version.

String_WordReplaceA PROTO lpszSource:QWORD, lpszDestination:QWORD, lpszWordToReplace:QWORD, lpszReplacementWord:QWORD

Parameters

lpszSource - The source text to replace words in.
lpszDestination - The destination buffer for the result.
lpszWordToReplace - The word to replace.
lpszReplacementWord - The words to replace it with.

Returns

There is no return value.

Notes

This procedure is a table based linear text scanner based on the following allowable characters:

characters ! # $ % & ? @ _ numbers 0123456789 upper case ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ lower case abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

The procedure will recognise whole words made up of the above characters and will replace every instance of that word with the replacement text. It is suited for simple tasks like replacing whole words in text such as in a text editor but it is also fast enough to loop through a number of words and replace all of them in a macro built into a scripting language or similar application.

It is an interim technology for tasks smaller than those normally handled by a far more complex hash table.

This function as based on the MASM32 Library function: