Posted by Toby Inkster on 03/12/06 02:06

Janwillem Borleffs wrote:

> Simon wrote:
>> Just out of curiosity, would it work if $needle, $str, $haystack had
>> escape/special characters?
>
> Good point. You need to escape reserved regular expression characters in
> $needle as follows:
>
> if (!function_exists('str_ireplace')) {
> function str_ireplace($needle, $str, $haystack) {
> $needle = preg_quote($needle, '/');
> return preg_replace("/$needle/i", $str, $haystack);
> }
> }
>
> $str and $haystack do not need to be modified.

What if $str contained "\1"?

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