这个用起来可能更好

void replace(string& input, const string& from, const string& to)
{
    auto pos = 0;
    while(true)
    {
        size_t startPosition = input.find(from, pos);
        if(startPosition == string::npos)
            return;
        input.replace(startPosition, from.length(), to);
        pos += to.length();
    }
}

要返回新字符串，请使用以下命令:

std::string ReplaceString(std::string subject, const std::string& search,
                          const std::string& replace) {
    size_t pos = 0;
    while ((pos = subject.find(search, pos)) != std::string::npos) {
         subject.replace(pos, search.length(), replace);
         pos += replace.length();
    }
    return subject;
}

如果你需要性能，这里有一个修改输入字符串的优化函数，它不会创建字符串的副本:

void ReplaceStringInPlace(std::string& subject, const std::string& search,
                          const std::string& replace) {
    size_t pos = 0;
    while ((pos = subject.find(search, pos)) != std::string::npos) {
         subject.replace(pos, search.length(), replace);
         pos += replace.length();
    }
}

测试:

std::string input = "abc abc def";
std::cout << "Input string: " << input << std::endl;

std::cout << "ReplaceString() return value: " 
          << ReplaceString(input, "bc", "!!") << std::endl;
std::cout << "ReplaceString() input string not modified: " 
          << input << std::endl;

ReplaceStringInPlace(input, "bc", "??");
std::cout << "ReplaceStringInPlace() input string modified: " 
          << input << std::endl;

输出:

Input string: abc abc def
ReplaceString() return value: a!! a!! def
ReplaceString() input string not modified: abc abc def
ReplaceStringInPlace() input string modified: a?? a?? def

wstring myString = L"Hello $$ this is an example. By $$.";
wstring search = L"$$";
wstring replace = L"Tom";
for (int i = myString.find(search); i >= 0; i = myString.find(search))
    myString.replace(i, search.size(), replace);

如果所有字符串都是std::string，如果使用sizeof()，你会发现字符截断的奇怪问题，因为它是针对C字符串，而不是c++字符串。修复方法是使用std::string的.size()类方法。

sHaystack.replace(sHaystack.find(sNeedle), sNeedle.size(), sReplace);

这代替了sHaystack内联-不需要做=赋值回来。

使用示例:

std::string sHaystack = "This is %XXX% test.";
std::string sNeedle = "%XXX%";
std::string sReplace = "my special";
sHaystack.replace(sHaystack.find(sNeedle),sNeedle.size(),sReplace);
std::cout << sHaystack << std::endl;

那么加速方案呢:

boost::replace_all(value, "token1", "token2");

在c++ 11中，你可以像这样使用std::regex:

#include <regex>
...
std::string string("hello $name");
string = std::regex_replace(string, std::regex("\\$name"), "Somename");

对于转义字符，需要使用双反斜杠。