[hitman_in_wi]

Hey guys, Im writing a program that loads product names into a TLabel->Caption. The problem arises when I want to display an &. Since Caption is a String, it sees the & and puts an underscore underneath the next character. Therefore, instead of getting "Barnes & Nobles" I get "Barnes _Nobles". I cannot simply change the name in the datafile to "Barnes && Nobles", because other Containers I use display the & just fine.

Therefore, the best solution I can think of is to, before loading the name into the Caption, replace all '&' in a string with '&&'. I would like it to work no matter how many '&' are in the product name.

How exactly do I do this? Ive looked at some of the string::replace functions, but I cant figure it out.

Thanks!

[coderitr]

Is this homework?

[Shadow2531]

Here are 2 general examples on how to replace a char in a string with something else. You will have to figure out how to use the idea for your sitution.

STL example

#include <iostream>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

string replace_amp(const string& s) {
    string build_it;
    for (size_t i = 0 ; i < s.size() ; i++) {
        if (s[i] == '&') {
            build_it += "&&";
        } else {
            build_it += s[i];
        }
    }
    return build_it;
}

int main() {
    const string example = "1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6";
    cout << replace_amp(example) << endl;
}

boost lib example

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <boost/regex.hpp>

using namespace std;
using namespace boost;

int main() {
    const string example = "1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6";
    cout << regex_replace(example,regex("&"),"&&") << endl;
}