frickin damn regexp, please help me before I shoot myself.

[dechamp]

I'm not understanding what I'm doing wrong and I'm really tired which is my first problem. Solve this for me please!

 

$input = "why won't you change my word. @@origionalWord@@";

$q = "@@{1}[[:word:]]*@@{1}";

 

$input2 = str_replace($q, 'replacementWord', $input);

 

 

This is not changing it to "why won't you change my word. replacementWord

 

I've used an regexp gen to verify my work and it's still not working.

 

I tried a ton of different variations.

 

(@@{1}[[:word:]]*@@{1})

(@@){1}[[:word:]]*(@@){1}

((@@){1}[[:word:]]*(@@){1}) and so on. also with ^ and $

[cags]

Firstly str_replace doesn't support complex matching (i.e. Regular Expressions), it only matches literal strings. Secondly the syntax you are using there looks very much like POSIX, ideally you should be using PCRE syntax with the preg_ functions such as preg_match.

 

To replace literal '@@originalWord@@'

 

$output = str_replace('@@originalWord@@', 'replacementWord', $intput;

To replace any word between double @ signs

 

$output = preg_replace('#@@[a-z]+@@#i', 'replacementWord', $input);

 

[ignace]

Before shooting yourself, read up on Regex and PHP Regex functions. str_replace() is not one of 'em.

 

$text = 'why won\'t you change my word. @@origionalWord@@';
echo preg_replace('/@@([a-z])+@@/i', 'replacementWord', $text);

 

Edit: meh

[dechamp]

Wow and this is why working exhausted is a bad idea, I started off with preg_match and throughout testing totally forget that I had tried using str_repace. grrrrr well thank you both for the help!