perf util: Add a function for replacing characters in a string

perf util: Add a function for replacing characters in a string

It finds all occurrences of a single character and replaces them with
a multi character string. This will be used in a test in a following
commit.

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Chen Zhongjin <chenzhongjin@huawei.com>
Cc: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Cc: Haixin Yu <yuhaixin.yhx@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jing Zhang <renyu.zj@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
Cc: Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yang Jihong <yangjihong1@huawei.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230904095104.1162928-4-james.clark@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>