Program to Replace a Particular Word by Another Word from a given String in C++

October 14, 2022

Replace a Particular word by Another word from a Given String in C++

Here, in this page we will discuss the program to Replace a Particular word by Another word from a Given String in C++ programming language.

Replace a Particular word by Another word from a Given String in C++
While loop in C

Method Discussed :

  • Method 1 : Brute force approach
  • Method 2 : In-place Replacing

Let’s discuss both the methods one by one in brief,

Method 1 :

  • Declare a string variable say ans = “” to store the required string.
  • Iterate over the characters of the string S using variable i and perform the following steps:
    • If the prefix substring of the string S is equal to S1 from the index i, then add the string S2 in the string ans.
    • Otherwise, add the current character to the string ans.
  • After completing the above steps, print the string ans as the result.

Method 1 : Code in C++

Run
#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
 
// Function to replace all the occurrences
// of the substring S1 to S2 in string S
void modifyString(string& s, string& s1,
                  string& s2)
{
    // Stores the resultant string
    string ans = "";
 
    // Traverse the string s
    for (int i = 0; i < s.length(); i++) {
 
        int k = 0;
 
        // If the first character of
        // string s1 matches with the
        // current character in string s
        if (s[i] == s1[k]
            && i + s1.length()
                   <= s.length()) {
 
            int j;
 
            // If the complete string
            // matches or not
            for (j = i; j < i + s1.length(); j++) {
 
                if (s[j] != s1[k]) {
                    break;
                }
                else {
                    k = k + 1;
                }
            }
 
            // If complete string matches
            // then replace it with the
            // string s2
            if (j == i + s1.length()) {
                ans.append(s2);
                i = j - 1;
            }
 
            // Otherwise
            else {
                ans.push_back(s[i]);
            }
        }
 
        // Otherwise
        else {
            ans.push_back(s[i]);
        }
    }
 
    // Print the resultant string
    cout <<"Modified String : "<< ans;
}
 
// Driver Code
int main()
{
    string S = "Let's Learn C";
    string S1 = "C";
    string S2 = "C++";
    cout<<"Original String : "<<S<<endl;
    modifyString(S, S1, S2);
 
    return 0;
}

Output

Original String : Let's Learn C
Modified String : Let's Learn C++
 
 

Toggle each character in a string

Find the ASCII value of a character

Length of the string without using strlen() function

Method 2 :

This method involves inplace update of string. It is more efficient as it uses only extra space for the new characters to be inserted.

Method 2 : Code in C++

Run 
#include < bits/stdc++.h >
using namespace std;
int main ()
{
    string s = "Let's Learn C";
    cout << "Original String : " << s << endl;
  
    string x = "C", y = "C++";

    reverse (s.begin (), s.end ());
    reverse (x.begin (), x.end ());
    reverse (y.begin (), y.end ());

    int ls = s.length (), lx = x.length (), ly = y.length ();
    int d = ly - lx;
    int ct = 0;
    int i = 0, j = 0;

    while (i < ls){
      
        string temp = "";
      
        for (int k = 0; k < lx; k++){
	        temp += s[i + k];
	    }

        if (temp == x){
	        ct++;
	        i = i + lx;
        }
      
        else{
	        i = i + 1;
	    }
    }

    for (int i = 0; i < ct * d; i++)
        s += ' ';
  
    i = ls - 1;
    j = ls + ct * d - 1;
  
    while (i >= 0 && j >= 0){
        string temp = "";
        
        for (int k = 0; k < lx; k++){
	        if (i < (lx - 1 - k))
	            break;
	        temp += s[i - (lx - 1 - k)];
	    }
      
        if (temp == x){
	        int k = ly - 1;
	        while (k >= 0)
	            s[j--] = y[k--];
	        i = i - lx;
	    }
        
        else{
	        s[j--] = s[i--];
	    }
    }
    
    reverse (s.begin (), s.end ());
    cout << "Modified String : " << s << endl;

    return 0;
}

Output

Original String : Let's Learn C
Modified String : Let's Learn C++

Prime Course Trailer

Related Banners

Get PrepInsta Prime & get Access to all 200+ courses offered by PrepInsta in One Subscription

Get Prime
While loop in C

One comment on “Program to Replace a Particular Word by Another Word from a given String in C++”


  • Niraj

    #include
    #include
    #include
    using namespace std;
    int main()
    {
    string str;
    string change;
    char ch;
    cout<<"Enter string:";
    getline(cin,str);
    cout<<"Enter character which we want to add :";
    getline(cin,change);
    cout<>ch;
    int place=str.find(ch);
    str.erase(place,1);
    str.insert(place,change);
    cout<<str;
    return 0;
    }