Posted by Robert Cummings on 06/25/05 09:56

On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 02:17, Burhan Khalid wrote:
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
>
> > Ill I knew about, its I didn't. I didn't mean to put ill in there...
> >
> > Should I enter each contraction twice (for the capitalization), or
> > should I try to do something smart so that the capitalization will
> > happen automatically. The 'I' contractions are special, I will deal
> > with those seperatly.
>
> str_ireplace() is a case-insensitive version of str_replace

str_ireplace() is PHP5 only and so not necessarily a good option.
Additionally it won't work properly since it will normalize all
replacements into lower case which is not the desired outcome since
sentences beginning with foobar'd contractions should maintain their
capitalization.

Cheers,
Rob.
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