Support URLs in $NIX_PATH

This didn't work (despite claims in the manual), because the colon in
"http://" was parsed as a element separator. So handle "://"
specially.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/libutil/util.hh b/src/libutil/util.hh
index 6e20a22d9d..187e05ece0 100644
--- a/src/libutil/util.hh
+++ b/src/libutil/util.hh
@@ -341,6 +341,11 @@ string chomp(const string & s);
 string trim(const string & s, const string & whitespace = " \n\r\t");
 
 
+/* Replace all occurrences of a string inside another string. */
+string replaceStrings(const std::string & s,
+    const std::string & from, const std::string & to);
+
+
 /* Convert the exit status of a child as returned by wait() into an
    error string. */
 string statusToString(int status);