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Posted by Darko on 11/09/07 00:06
On Nov 8, 11:13 pm, windandwaves <nfranc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 7, 10:21 am, Michael Fesser <neti...@gmx.de> wrote:
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> > .oO(windandwaves)
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> > >Why is this so hard?
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> > >I can do a str_replace. That is easy. However, I do many of them AND
> > >I want to make sure that one replacement does not override another...
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> > >e.g.
> > >statement 1 could be: replace "cats" with "dogs"
> > >statement 2 could be: replaced "do" with "did"
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> > >as you can see, this could turn "cats" into "didgs"
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> > >That is what is the hard part.
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> > That's why I suggested to give strtr() a try, which should avoid this
> > problem.
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> > Micha
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> Hi Micha
>
> >From what I understand strtr only replace characters, not sentences,
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> so I am not sure if that would work.
>
> Cheers
>
> Nicolaas
Please read the manual more carefully. Because, yes, the first few
lines say the following:
> This function returns a copy of str, translating all occurrences of each
> character in from to the corresponding character in to.
What also says there is the following:
> strtr() may be called with only two arguments. If called with two arguments it
> behaves in a new way: from then has to be an array that contains string -> string
> pairs that will be replaced in the source string.
> strtr() will always look for the longest possible match first and will *NOT* try
> to replace stuff that it has already worked on.
Cheers
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