diff --git a/examples/export-lora/export-lora.cpp b/examples/export-lora/export-lora.cpp
index d228ae66e..2e1e5f4b4 100644
--- a/examples/export-lora/export-lora.cpp
+++ b/examples/export-lora/export-lora.cpp
@@ -51,17 +51,14 @@ static struct gguf_context * load_gguf(std::string & fname, struct ggml_context
 }
 
 static void replace_all(std::string & s, const std::string & search, const std::string & replace) {
-    std::string result;
-    for (size_t pos = 0; ; pos += search.length()) {
-        auto new_pos = s.find(search, pos);
-        if (new_pos == std::string::npos) {
-            result += s.substr(pos, s.size() - pos);
-            break;
-        }
-        result += s.substr(pos, new_pos - pos) + replace;
-        pos = new_pos;
+    if (search.empty()) {
+        return; // Avoid infinite loop if 'search' is an empty string
+    }
+    size_t pos = 0;
+    while ((pos = s.find(search, pos)) != std::string::npos) {
+        s.replace(pos, search.length(), replace);
+        pos += replace.length();
     }
-    s = std::move(result);
 }
 
 struct file_input {
diff --git a/examples/llava/clip.cpp b/examples/llava/clip.cpp
index 7cda5f10c..a6edb3511 100644
--- a/examples/llava/clip.cpp
+++ b/examples/llava/clip.cpp
@@ -200,17 +200,14 @@ static std::string gguf_data_to_str(enum gguf_type type, const void * data, int
 }
 
 static void replace_all(std::string & s, const std::string & search, const std::string & replace) {
-    std::string result;
-    for (size_t pos = 0; ; pos += search.length()) {
-        auto new_pos = s.find(search, pos);
-        if (new_pos == std::string::npos) {
-            result += s.substr(pos, s.size() - pos);
-            break;
-        }
-        result += s.substr(pos, new_pos - pos) + replace;
-        pos = new_pos;
+    if (search.empty()) {
+        return; // Avoid infinite loop if 'search' is an empty string
+    }
+    size_t pos = 0;
+    while ((pos = s.find(search, pos)) != std::string::npos) {
+        s.replace(pos, search.length(), replace);
+        pos += replace.length();
     }
-    s = std::move(result);
 }
 
 static std::string gguf_kv_to_str(const struct gguf_context * ctx_gguf, int i) {
diff --git a/src/llama-vocab.cpp b/src/llama-vocab.cpp
index e6d6059d0..2a39065cb 100644
--- a/src/llama-vocab.cpp
+++ b/src/llama-vocab.cpp
@@ -17,17 +17,14 @@
 //
 
 static void replace_all(std::string & s, const std::string & search, const std::string & replace) {
-    std::string result;
-    for (size_t pos = 0; ; pos += search.length()) {
-        auto new_pos = s.find(search, pos);
-        if (new_pos == std::string::npos) {
-            result += s.substr(pos, s.size() - pos);
-            break;
-        }
-        result += s.substr(pos, new_pos - pos) + replace;
-        pos = new_pos;
+    if (search.empty()) {
+        return; // Avoid infinite loop if 'search' is an empty string
+    }
+    size_t pos = 0;
+    while ((pos = s.find(search, pos)) != std::string::npos) {
+        s.replace(pos, search.length(), replace);
+        pos += replace.length();
     }
-    s = std::move(result);
 }
 
 LLAMA_ATTRIBUTE_FORMAT(1, 2)