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ereg_replace

Name

ereg_replace — Performs POSIX regular expression match and replaces the matches in the subject with the specified replacement.

Synopsis

string ereg_replace(pattern, replacement, subject);
string pattern: Regex pattern to match
string replacement: Replacement string
string subject: String to search using the pattern

Returns

Modified string if the pattern matched; unmodified string if not

Description

This function replaces any matches for the pattern with a replacement in a specified subject string. The entire string is searched for the pattern and all the matches are replaced. This allows a global search and replace to be done quickly and easily.

The replacement string can contain references of the form \n, where n is a number from 0 to 9. Before the actual replacement is performed, the function looks for these references in the replacement string and substitutes them with the text matched by the corresponding parenthesized subpattern in the pattern parameter. \0 refers to the text matched by the whole pattern, \1 refers to the text matched by the first parenthesized subpattern, and so on.

Note

If the replacement string is specified in double quotation marks, the backslash character must be doubled. For example, the following two statements are equivalent:

$fixed = ereg_replace("(fox) (brown)", '\2 \1', $sentence);
$fixed = ereg_replace("(fox) (brown)", "\\2 \\1", $sentence);

If no matches are found in the subject string, it's returned unchanged.

See also

See also eregi_replace() , preg_replace()

Example

Example 1124. Keep quips up to date

$string = "Best way to dispose of the Borg: Give them Windows 3.1.";
echo ereg_replace("(Windows[ ]*)(3.1|95|98|Me|2000|NT)", '\1XP', $string);
This example produces the following result:
Best way to dispose of the Borg: Give them Windows XP.





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