From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2010-05-06T21:37:11+09:00
Subject: Re: How can I call String#replace (rb_str_replace()) in C API?

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 12:45 AM, James Masters
<james.d.masters@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the advice :).  Yeah, I was actually thinking about
> allocating another Ruby string and doing something similar to what
> rb_str_replace does to avoid crashing and GC issues.  But it will
> still be tricky.  I wish that this was easier...

You could use rb_intern and rb_funcall*

VALUE origin_str;
VALUE replacement_str;
ID replace_id = rb_intern("replace");

rb_funcall(orig_string, replace_id, 1, replacement_str);

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