hi. I have a program to readline by line from a file. I want to replace certain portion of the line then write it out to a new file.

but I don't know how to replace strings that contrain certain characters embeded within them: for example: 

source string
1230,5,6,12344,adblock.dll,c:\program files\document and
settings\1800cursor.dll,,,,,123,1,2,2
new string:
1230,5,6,12344,adblock.dll,c:\program
files\system32\afvdefdcec.exel,,,,,123,1,2,2

another example:
12,3,4,ascii sample,123,c:\ascii\121243.php,1,3,45,5
to
12,3,4,hi-ascii sample,123,c:\@#$%^.rexehp,1,3,45,5

[download]

the only thing I know it ia position based. how can i do that? my goal is to make a function that takes (sourceline, source_word,replacement) then it will do the replacement regardless all these 3 parameters contain hiascii,ascii, or dbcs.. how to archieve that. I only have a version that works with ascii and without those special characters like \ ....

please help.

GrandFather fixed formatting

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