Changeset 6994 for trunk/MagicSoft/Mars/mfileio

Timestamp:

05/04/05 16:53:10 (20 years ago)

Author:

tbretz

Message:

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File:

• trunk/MagicSoft/Mars/mfileio/MWriteRootFile.cc (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/MagicSoft/Mars/mfileio/MWriteRootFile.cc

@@ -856 +856 @@
         // Replace source by destination
         const TRegexp regexp(src);
-        while (1)
-        {
-            idx = regexp.Index(fname, &len);
+
+        Ssiz_t ichar = 0;
+        while (1) // Replace all occurrences of src by dest
+        {
+            idx = regexp.Index(fname, &len, ichar);
             if (idx<0)
                 break;
 
             fname.Replace(idx, len, dest);
+            ichar = idx + dest.Length();
+
+            // In next iteration, we start searching the string fname
+            // right after the last character of the previous substitution
+            // (indicated by ichar). This avoids infinite loops in the case 
+            // we want to replace, for instance, "_w" by "_Y_w". Without 
+            // the use of ichar, the second string would be replaced by 
+            // "_Y_Y_w", and this would never end... 
         }
     }