Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/8] lib: string: Introduce strreplace

[Joe Perches]

On Thu, 2015-06-04 at 23:37 +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 03:56:07AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > Seems sensible, but the name maybe could be be more
> > explicit as strreplace seems like it should more like
> > a string substitution rather than a char substitution.
> > 
> > Maybe strsubstchr or something like it (strtranschr?)
> 
> Why not go the full monty and call it strtrtsstrrrtst(), with
> strtrtssstrrtst() doing almost, but not quite the same thing?

Presumably the extra r is for reverse and the
extra s in for insensitive, just because...

Naming does matter.  Consistency too.

And for the consistency bit, the char arguments
should probably be int.


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