ereg_replace
(PHP 4, PHP 5)
ereg_replace — Replace regular expression
This function was DEPRECATED in PHP 5.3.0, and REMOVED in PHP 7.0.0.
Alternatives to this function include:
Description
$pattern
, string $replacement
, string $string
)
This function scans string
for matches to
pattern
, then replaces the matched text
with replacement
.
Parameters
-
pattern
-
A POSIX extended regular expression.
-
replacement
-
If
pattern
contains parenthesized substrings,replacement
may contain substrings of the form \digit, which will be replaced by the text matching the digit'th parenthesized substring; \0 will produce the entire contents of string. Up to nine substrings may be used. Parentheses may be nested, in which case they are counted by the opening parenthesis. -
string
-
The input string.
Return Values
The modified string is returned. If no matches are found in
string
, then it will be returned unchanged.
Examples
For example, the following code snippet prints "This was a test" three times:
Example #1 ereg_replace() example
<?php
$string = "This is a test";
echo str_replace(" is", " was", $string);
echo ereg_replace("( )is", "\\1was", $string);
echo ereg_replace("(( )is)", "\\2was", $string);
?>
One thing to take note of is that if you use an integer value as
the replacement
parameter, you may not get
the results you expect. This is because
ereg_replace() will interpret the number as
the ordinal value of a character, and apply that. For instance:
Example #2 ereg_replace() example
<?php
/* This will not work as expected. */
$num = 4;
$string = "This string has four words.";
$string = ereg_replace('four', $num, $string);
echo $string; /* Output: 'This string has words.' */
/* This will work. */
$num = '4';
$string = "This string has four words.";
$string = ereg_replace('four', $num, $string);
echo $string; /* Output: 'This string has 4 words.' */
?>
Example #3 Replace URLs with links
<?php
$text = ereg_replace("[[:alpha:]]+://[^<>[:space:]]+[[:alnum:]/]",
'<a href="https://www.gaudry.be/php-rf-\\0">\\0</a>', $text);
?>
See Also
- ereg() - Regular expression match
- eregi() - Case insensitive regular expression match
- eregi_replace() - Replace regular expression case insensitive
- str_replace() - Replace all occurrences of the search string with the replacement string
- preg_replace() - Perform a regular expression search and replace
- quotemeta() - Quote meta characters
Document créé le 30/01/2003, dernière modification le 26/10/2018
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