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Posted by Darko on 11/10/07 01:24
On Nov 10, 12:33 am, windandwaves <nfranc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 9, 1:06 pm, Darko <darko.maksimo...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Nov 8, 11:13 pm, windandwaves <nfranc...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > 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
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> > > >From what I understand strtr only replace characters, not sentences,
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> > > so I am not sure if that would work.
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> > > Cheers
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> > > Nicolaas
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> > Please read the manual more carefully. Because, yes, the first few
> > lines say the following:
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> > > This function returns a copy of str, translating all occurrences of each
> > > character in from to the corresponding character in to.
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> > What also says there is the following:
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> > > 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.
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> > Cheers
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> Oh wow, my bad! Thank you.... I read that, but I did not really
> understand it. Wow, that is great. What a joy!
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> Thank you - that does exactly what I need.
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> My apologies.....!
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> Thank you
You should feel good, because it means it wasn't trivial :) as soon as
they provided us
with such function :)
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