'===========================================================================
' Subject: SEARCH AND REPLACE STRING          Date: 01-20-98 (16:15)       
'  Author: Dave Navarro, Jr.                  Code: PBDLL                  
'  Origin: dave@powerbasic.com              Packet: PBDLL.ABC
'===========================================================================
'==============================================================================
'
'  Visual Basic example for PB/DLL
'  Copyright (c) 1996 by PowerBASIC, Inc.
'
'  Return a string value.  Requires VBAPI.INC.
'
'  Visual Basic Declare:
'
'    Declare Sub Replace Lib "REPLACE.DLL" (ByVal a$, ByVal b$, c$)
'
'  Syntax:
'    REPLACE a$, b$, c$
'
'    a$ = The data you want to search for in c$
'    b$ = The data you want to to replace in c$
'    c$ = The string you want to search
'
'  Example:
'
'    c$ = "This is my time to shine!"
'    REPLACE "is", "IS", c$
'
'  Result:
'    "ThIS IS my time to shine!"
'
'
'------------------------------------------------------------------------------

$COMPILE DLL
$INCLUDE "WINAPI.INC"
$INCLUDE "VBAPI.INC"

SUB pbReplace ALIAS "REPLACE" (a AS ASCIIZ, _
                               b AS ASCIIZ, _
                               BYVAL c AS DWORD) EXPORT

  DIM d AS STRING                  ' temporary PowerBASIC string

  d = VbStringToPb(c)              ' convert VB string to PB string

  REPLACE a WITH b IN d            ' do the replace

  vbSetHlstr c, STRPTR(d), LEN(d)  ' update c$ with new value

END SUB