ColrC  0.4.0
An easy to use C library for linux terminal colors/escape-codes.
colr_replace_all_example.c
#include "colr.h"
int main(void) {
// The string we are modifying.
char* mystring = "This was foo. I mean foo.";
char* pattern = "foo";
/*
Replace a string with a string.
*/
char* replaced = colr_replace_all(
mystring,
pattern,
"replacement"
);
// Failed to allocate for new replaced string?
if (!replaced) return EXIT_FAILURE;
// Print the result and `free()` it.
puts(replaced);
free(replaced);
/*
Replace a string with a ColorText.
*/
replaced = colr_replace_all(
mystring,
pattern,
Colr("replacement", fore(RED))
);
// Failed to allocate for new replaced string?
if (!replaced) return EXIT_FAILURE;
// Print the result and `free()` it.
puts(replaced);
free(replaced);
/*
Replace a string with a ColorResult.
*/
replaced = colr_replace_all(
mystring,
pattern,
" ",
Colr("really", style(BRIGHT)),
Colr("replaced", fore(BLUE))
)
);
// Failed to allocate for new replaced string?
if (!replaced) return EXIT_FAILURE;
// Print the result and `free()` it.
puts(replaced);
free(replaced);
/*
Replace a string with a ColorResult.
*/
char* mytemplate = "This REDis " NC "kinda REDuseful" NC "?";
replaced = colr_replace_all(
mytemplate,
"RED",
fore(RED)
);
// Failed to allocate for new replaced string?
if (!replaced) return EXIT_FAILURE;
// Print the result and `free()` it.
puts(replaced);
free(replaced);
/*
Replace a `NULL`-terminated array of regex matches with a ColorText.
*/
char* mymatchstring = "I think this is a beautiful thing.";
regex_t pat;
if (regcomp(&pat, "th[a-z]+", REG_EXTENDED)) {
regfree(&pat);
fprintf(stderr, "Failed to compile regex!\n");
return EXIT_FAILURE;
}
// `colr_re_matches` returns a `NULL`-terminated array of regex matches.
regmatch_t** matches = colr_re_matches(mymatchstring, &pat);
// We don't need the pattern anymore, `free()` it.
regfree(&pat);
if (!matches) {
// Impossible (for this example).
colr_free(matches);
fprintf(stderr, "Failed to match anything!\n");
return EXIT_FAILURE;
}
replaced = colr_replace_all(mymatchstring, matches, Colr("uhhh", fore(RED)));
// We don't need the matches anymore, `free()` them.
// You must use colr_free_re_matches() or the colr_free() macro.
colr_free(matches);
if (!replaced) return EXIT_FAILURE;
// Print the result and `free()` it.
puts(replaced);
free(replaced);
/*
Replace a compiled regex pattern with a ColorText.
*/
char* mypatstring = "I think this is a beautiful thing.";
regex_t mypat;
if (regcomp(&mypat, "th[a-z]+", REG_EXTENDED)) {
regfree(&mypat);
fprintf(stderr, "Failed to compile regex!\n");
return EXIT_FAILURE;
}
replaced = colr_replace_all(mypatstring, &mypat, Colr("..uh", fore(BLUE)));
// We don't need the pattern anymore, `free()` it.
regfree(&mypat);
if (!replaced) return EXIT_FAILURE;
// Print the result and `free()` it.
puts(replaced);
free(replaced);
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}