GLib.Regex.replace_literal

### Method

# GLib Regexreplace_literal

since: 2.14

#### Declaration [src]

    gchar*
    g_regex_replace_literal (
      const GRegex* regex,
      const gchar* string,
      gssize string_len,
      gint start_position,
      const gchar* replacement,
      GRegexMatchFlags match_options,
      GError** error
    )

#### Description [src]

Replaces all occurrences of the pattern in `regex` with the replacement text. `replacement` is replaced literally, to include backreferences use g_regex_replace().

Setting `start_position` differs from just passing over a shortened string and setting `G_REGEX_MATCH_NOTBOL` in the case of a pattern that begins with any kind of lookbehind assertion, such as “\b”.

Available since: 2.14

#### Parameters

`string`

  Type: An array of `gchar`

  The string to perform matches against.

  The length of the array is specified in the `string_len` argument.
  The data is owned by the caller of the method.
  Each element is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

`string_len`

  Type: `gssize`

  The length of `string`, in bytes, or -1 if `string` is nul-terminated.

`start_position`

  Type: `gint`

  Starting index of the string to match, in bytes.

`replacement`

  Type: `const gchar*`

  Text to replace each match with.

  The data is owned by the caller of the method.
  The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

`match_options`

  Type: `GRegexMatchFlags`

  Options for the match.

`error`

  Type: `GError **`

  The return location for a recoverable error.

  The argument can be `NULL`.
  If the return location is not `NULL`, then you must initialize it to a `NULL` `GError*`.
  The argument will be left initialized to `NULL` by the method if there are no errors.
  In case of error, the argument will be set to a newly allocated `GError`; the caller will take ownership of the data, and be responsible for freeing it.

#### Return value

Type: `gchar*`

A newly allocated string containing the replacements.

The caller of the method takes ownership of the returned data, and is responsible for freeing it.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.