Posted by Brian V Bonini on 11/26/91 11:17

On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 12:22, W Luke wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have some text in a file which, when it's dumped to a var, needs to
> be replaced. In its raw form, it looks like this: <^JIM_JONES> and I
> need to remove the <^_ and > characters and have it read "Jim-Jones"
>
> It's nestled in amongst a load of other text - I'm fopen'ing a file
> and reading it line by line - the text-to-replace is just in a var
> named $text1
>
> Any ideas would be great
>
> Will

Someone much more clever that I can probably come up with something much
cleaner and efficient but.... This works...

<?php

function replace($string)
{
$chars = array("<", "^", ">");
$string = str_replace($chars, "", $string);
$string = str_replace("_", "-", $string);
$pieces = preg_split('/-/', $string);

foreach($pieces as $char) {
$first_letter[] = $char{0};
$remainder[] = strtolower(substr($char, 1));
}

$result = array_merge($first_letter, $remainder);
list($frstltr,$lstltr,$frstwrd,$lstwrd) = $result;
$string = $frstltr . $frstwrd . "-" . $lstltr . $lstwrd;
return $string;
}

$text1 = '<^JIM_JONES>';
echo replace($text1);

?>





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