## Copyright (C) 1995, 1996  Kurt Hornik
## 
## This file is part of Octave.
##
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## usage:  strrep (s, x, y)
##
## Replace all occurences of the substring x of the string s with the
## string y.

## Author: Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
## Created: 11 November 1994
## Adapted-By: jwe

function t = strrep (s, x, y)
  
  if (nargin <> 3)
    usage ("strrep (s, x, y)");
  endif
  
  if (! (isstr (s) && isstr (x) && isstr (y)))
    error ("strrep: all arguments must be strings");
  endif
  
  if (length (x) > length (s) || isempty (x))
    t = s;
    return;
  endif
  
  ind = findstr (s, x, 0);
  len = length (ind);
  if (len == 0)
    t = s;
  else
    s = toascii (s);
    x = toascii (x);
    y = toascii (y);

    l_x = length (x);
    tmp = s (1 : ind (1) - 1);
    t = [tmp, y];
    for k = 1 : len - 1
      tmp = s (ind (k) + l_x : ind (k+1) - 1);
      t = [t, tmp, y];
    endfor
    tmp = s (ind(len) + l_x : length (s));
    t = [t, tmp];
    t = setstr (t);
  endif
  
endfunction