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Exclamation String Search & Replace

Hey, I want to have a C program which, for an existing file supplied by the command line argument (E.g. File1.txt) replaces all the occurrences of the words:

"We” or “we” by “I”
“a” by “the”
“A” by “The”.

Then print the replaced file. All other characters of the file are to be left unchanged.

I know basically to change a string of characters you use:
String.Replace("oldval","newval");

How would you go about doing this to an entire txt file???

Maybe use a loop or case statement?

Does anybody know any places to get code snippets for something like this.

Im not very experienced but looking to learn!!
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You can usually replace instances of a word with another using something.. say sed, like this:

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sed 's/a/the/g' somefile > someotherfile; mv someotherfile somefile

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