Posted by Brian V Bonini on 10/21/72 11:17

On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 16:24, W Luke wrote:
> On 30/05/05, Brian V Bonini <b-bonini@cox.net> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > > Again, an example that is as close to your real-world needs as possible
> > > would be very helpful.
> >
> > The original request was: "the text-to-replace is just in a var named
> > $text1".
> >
> > I read that to mean you'd already extracted "<^JIM_JONES>" into $text1
>
> Sorry - my mistake/fault. $text1 always begins with <^JIM_JONES> by
> is followed by various other stuff:
>
> <^JIM_JONES> Leicester, 1720. Oxford, 1800 CONFIRMED: meeting at 19.10
>
> And I'd like it to read, simply, JIM JONES: (I think having the name
> in Caps would be best for now) and leave the rest of the text
> unaltered:

<?php // this will produce Jim-Jones as in previous post

function replace($string, $search)
{
$string = strstr($string, $search)
$string = preg_replace("/(<|\^|>)/", "",$string);
$string = str_replace("_", " ", $string);
$string = ucwords(strtolower($string));
$string = str_replace(" ", "-", $string);
return $string;
}

$text = 'My name is <^JIM_JONES> and I like ice cream';
$search_string = '<^JIM_JONES>';
echo replace($text, $search_string);

?>

<?php // this will produce JIM JONES

function replace($string, $search)
{
$string = strstr($string, $search)
$string = preg_replace("/(<|\^|>)/", "",$string);
$string = str_replace("_", " ", $string);
return $string;
}

$text = 'My name is <^JIM_JONES> and I like ice cream';
$search_string = '<^JIM_JONES>';
echo replace($text, $search_string);

?>


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