move replace_all function to base/string.h

2 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/base/estring.cpp b/lib/base/estring.cpp
index 5d15ddce..f1d50ccc 100644
--- a/lib/base/estring.cpp
+++ b/lib/base/estring.cpp
@@ -633,3 +633,12 @@ void makeUpper(std::string &s)
 {
 	std::transform(s.begin(), s.end(), s.begin(), (int(*)(int)) toupper);
 }
+
+std::string replace_all(const std::string &in, const std::string &entity, const std::string &symbol)
+{
+	std::string out = in;
+	std::string::size_type loc = 0;
+	while (( loc = out.find(entity, loc)) != std::string::npos )
+	out.replace(loc, entity.length(), symbol);
+	return out;
+}
diff --git a/lib/base/estring.h b/lib/base/estring.h
index 68e0970f..d61489eb 100644
--- a/lib/base/estring.h
+++ b/lib/base/estring.h
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ int isUTF8(const std::string &string);
 
 std::string removeDVBChars(const std::string &s);
 void makeUpper(std::string &s);
+std::string replace_all(const std::string &in, const std::string &entity, const std::string &symbol);
 
 inline std::string convertDVBUTF8(const std::string &string, int table=0, int tsidonid=0) // with default ISO8859-1/Latin1
 {