str_replace

[EchoFool]

Hey

 

i have a string replace for talk like a pirate day but it doesnt work how i was hopeing :

 

<?php
$text = str_replace(' hey ', 'Yo ho ho, and a bottle of rum!', $text);
?>

 

This currently only works if there is a space either side of "hey" so " hey " is valid "hey" is not valid... i could only do it this way because otherwise words with "hey" in the middle of the word would be replaces such as:

 

So "they" became:

 

"tYo ho ho, and a bottle of rum!"

 

which is annoying - how do i solve that issue?

[teamatomic]

Its called word boundary

/\bhey\b/

put an i after it for case insensitivity

/\bweb\b/i

 

 

HTH

Teamatomic

 

[EchoFool]

I tried:

 

$text = str_replace('/\byo\b/i', 'Yo ho ho, and a bottle of rum!', $text);

 

But that didnt work either :S

[teamatomic]

Just use preg_replace instead

$text='Yo ho ho, and a duncan yoyo!';
$text=  preg_replace("/\byo\b/i", 'JoJo!',"$text");
   echo "$text";

 

 

HTH

Teamatomic