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- -- USAGE:
- -- string.replace("mystring", "my", "our")
- -- or
- -- local teststr = "weird[]str%ing"
- -- teststr2 = teststr:replace("weird[]", "cool(%1)")
- -- Warning: add your own \0 char handling if you need it!
- do
- local function regexEscape(str)
- return str:gsub("[%(%)%.%%%+%-%*%?%[%^%$%]]", "%%%1")
- end
- -- you can use return and set your own name if you do require() or dofile()
- -- like this: str_replace = require("string-replace")
- -- return function (str, this, that) -- modify the line below for the above to work
- string.replace = function (str, this, that)
- return str:gsub(regexEscape(this), that:gsub("%%", "%%%%")) -- only % needs to be escaped for 'that'
- end
- end
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