Posted by jmark on 08/13/07 15:04

On Aug 13, 2:44 am, gosha bine <stereof...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12.08.2007 21:45 jm...@fastermail.com wrote:
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> > I saw this example in php.net
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> > // Outputs: apearpearle pear
> > $letters = array('a', 'p');
> > $fruit = array('apple', 'pear');
> > $text = 'a p';
> > $output = str_replace($letters, $fruit, $text);
> > echo $output;
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> > and I am bit puzzled why the output is the way it is instead of
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> > apple pear
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> > it looks like str_replace is replacing the p in apple to pear but why
> > does not replace the p in pear to pear and the a to apple and why is
> > the output not "apple pear"?
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> what you probably want is strtr
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> $repl = array('a' => 'apple', 'p' => 'pear');
> $text = 'a p';
> echo strtr($text, $repl);
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> gosha bine
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Thanks for showing me this function. I like it

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