programming/tads2/examples/replaceWith.t

/* Copyright (c) 2000 by Kevin Forchione.  All Rights Reserved. */
/*
 *  TADS ADV.T/STD.T LIBRARY EXTENSION
 *  REPLACEWITH.T				
 *  version 1.0
 *
 *      ReplaceWith provides an easy way to replace string search values
 *      with target values using regular expression searches.
 *
 *----------------------------------------------------------------------
 *  REQUIREMENTS
 *
 *      + HTML TADS 2.3.0 or later
 *
 *----------------------------------------------------------------------
 *  IMPORTANT LIBRARY INTERFACE AND MODIFICATION
 *
 *      None.
 *
 *----------------------------------------------------------------------
 *  COPYRIGHT NOTICE
 *
 *  	You may modify and use this file in any way you want, provided that
 *		if you redistribute modified copies of this file in source form, the
 *   	copies must include the original copyright notice (including this
 *   	paragraph), and must be clearly marked as modified from the original
 *   	version.
 *
 *------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 *  REVISION HISTORY
 *
 *      09-Feb-2000:    Creation.
 */
 
#define __REPLACEWITH_MODULE_
 
#pragma C+

#define RW_REPLACE_ONCE     1
#define RW_MATCH_WORD       2
#define RW_MATCH_CASE       4
#define RW_RET_NIL          8

/*
 *  replaceWith(value, target, replacement, flags)
 *
 *  The function searches the value string, replacing the target string
 *  with the replacement string. 
 *
 *  Bit-flags can be passed to control the search. 
 *
 *      RW_REPLACE_ONCE replace only one occurrence of the target in the 
 *           value string.
 *
 *          The default for replaceWith() is to replace all occurrences 
 *          of the target in the value string.
 *
 *      RW_MATCH_WORD target must match whole words. For example:
 *
 *          target 'get in' will search for '%<get>% *%<in%>'
 *          which will match 'get    in the chair', but not 
 *          'get into the chair'
 *
 *      RW_MATCH_CASE target must match the case in value. 
 *
 *          The default for replaceWith() is case-insensitive. A target
 *          string of 'get into' will match on 'GET INTO THE CAR' as
 *          well as 'Get into the car' unless RW_MATCH_CASE is used. 
 *
 *      RW_RET_NIL function returns nil if no match for the target found
 *
 *          The default for replaceWith() returns the value unchanged.
 *          Using RW_RET_NIL will return the value only if replacement
 *          occurred; otherwise the function will return nil.
 */
replaceWith: function(value, target, replacement, ...)
{
    local ret, new_value = '';
    local valuesave, targetsave, replacementsave;
    local flags = 0;
    
    if (argcount > 3) flags = getarg(4);
    if ((flags & RW_MATCH_WORD)!= 0) 
    {
        local tmptarget = '%<';
        tmptarget += replaceWith(target, ' ', '%> *%<');
        tmptarget += '%>';
        target = tmptarget;
    }
    
    do
    {
        if ((flags & RW_MATCH_CASE) == 0)
        {
            valuesave = value;
            targetsave = target;
            replacementsave = replacement;
            value = lower(value);
            target = lower(target);
            replacement = lower(replacement);
        }
        ret = reSearch(target, value);
        if ((flags & RW_MATCH_CASE) == 0)
        {
            value = valuesave;
            target = targetsave;
            replacement = replacementsave;
        }
        if (ret)
        {
            local len, tmp = '';
            len = length(value) + 1;
            if (ret[1] - 1)
                tmp += substr(value, 1, ret[1]-1);
            tmp += replacement;
            new_value += tmp;
            if (len - (ret[1]+ret[2]))
                value = substr(value, ret[1]+ret[2], len - (ret[1]+ret[2]));
            else
                value = '';
            if ((flags & RW_REPLACE_ONCE) != 0) break;
        }
        else if ((flags & RW_RET_NIL)!= 0
            && new_value == '') 
                return nil;
    }
    while( ret != nil);
    new_value += value;
    return new_value;
}