#include <Rcpp.h>

using namespace Rcpp;

// Function to replace a pattern in a string

void replacePattern(std::string &str, const std::string &pattern, const std::string &replacement) {

  size_t pos = 0;

  while ((pos = str.find(pattern, pos)) != std::string::npos) {

    str.replace(pos, pattern.length(), replacement);

    pos += replacement.length();

  }

}

// [[Rcpp::export]]

Rcpp::CharacterVector replacePatternInRcppVectorWrapper(Rcpp::CharacterVector textVector, const std::string &pattern, const std::string &replacement) {

  // replacePatternInRcppVector(textVector, pattern, replacement);

  R_xlen_t n = textVector.size();

  for (R_xlen_t i = 0; i < n; ++i) {

    std::string str = Rcpp::as<std::string>(textVector[i]);

    replacePattern(str, pattern, replacement);

    textVector[i] = str;

  }

  return textVector;

}