Templateise this

git-svn-id: http://svn.inspircd.org/repository/trunk/inspircd@10991 e03df62e-2008-0410-955e-edbf42e46eb7

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/hashcomp.h b/include/hashcomp.h
index b5db9e329..e650cbbe1 100644
--- a/include/hashcomp.h
+++ b/include/hashcomp.h
@@ -103,7 +103,28 @@ unsigned const char rfc_case_sensitive_map[256] = {
 
 #endif
 
-CoreExport const std::string& SearchAndReplace(std::string& text, const std::string& pattern, const std::string& replace);
+template<typename T> const T& SearchAndReplace(T& text, const T& pattern, const T& replace)
+{
+        T replacement;
+        if ((!pattern.empty()) && (!text.empty()))
+        {
+                for (std::string::size_type n = 0; n != text.length(); ++n)
+                {
+                        if (text.length() >= pattern.length() && text.substr(n, pattern.length()) == pattern)
+                        {
+                                /* Found the pattern in the text, replace it, and advance */
+                                replacement.append(replace);
+                                n = n + pattern.length() - 1;
+                        }
+                        else
+                        {
+                                replacement += text[n];
+                        }
+                }
+        }
+        text = replacement;
+        return text;
+}
 
 /** The irc namespace contains a number of helper classes.
  */