changing array value

[sax]

Hy to all, basicly all I want to do is:

I have an array of three elements, the firt to elements can be a string or a number for example.

vect[0]=12, vect[1]=JULY, or vect[0]=first,vect[1]=2 and so on.

all I want to do is to change the array value in base of it value. so if vect[0]=first I want to substitute it with 1, and if vect[1]=JULY I want to substitute it with 7. The only solution I can think of is to make a series of IF's but I don't like it, I think there is a bettere way to do it. 

this is my script

$date = "riunione del 1/aprile/1969 orco zio";
$p="!(primo|due|tre|quattro|cinque|sei|sette|otto|nove|dieci|undici|dodici|tredici|quattordici|quindici|sedici|diciassette|diciotto|diciannove|venti|ventuno|ventidue|ventitre|ventitré|ventitrè|ventiquattro|venticinque|ventisei|ventisette|ventotto|ventinove|trenta|trentuno|PRIMO|DUE|TRE|QUATTRO|CINQUE|SEI|SETTE|OTTO|NOVE|DIECI|UNDICI|DODICI|TREDICI|QUATTORDICI|QUINDICI|SEDICI|DICIASSETTE|DICIOTTO|DICIANNOVE|VENTI|VENTUNO|VENTIDUE|VENTITRE|VENTITRÉ|VENTITRÈ|VENTIQUATTRO|VENTICINQUE|VENTISEI|VENTISETTE|VENTOTTO|VENTINOVE|TRENTA|TRENTUNO|\d(?:\d)?)[-/](GENNAIO|FEBBRAIO|MARZO|APRILE|MAGGIO|GIUGNO|LUGLIO|AGOSTO|SETTEMBRE|OTTOBRE|NOVEMBRE|DICEMBRE|gennaio|febbraio|marzo|aprile|maggio|giugno|luglio|agosto|settembre|ottobre|novembre|dicembre|[0-9])[-/](\d\d(?:\d\d)?)*!";
if (preg_match($p,$date,$matches)) {
	echo $matches[1];
	echo $matches[2];
	echo $matches[3];
}

some has some ideas?

thank's

[requinix]

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Tip: strtr can do a bunch of replacements using an associative array, like

array(
	"first" => "1",
	"JULY" => "7",

[edit] And if you're always converting to a number then you can save yourself some repetition by

1. Converting the string to all upper- or lowercase (don't need a "july" and "JULY")

2. Using iconv() to "remove" accents from characters (don't need a "ventitre" and "ventitré")

[Psycho]

One possible solution:

//Define all the replacements (in lower case)
$replacements = array(
    'first' => 1,
    'second' => 2,
    'third' => 3,
    'july'  => 7,
    'august' => 8
);

function convertValues($value)
{
    global $replacements;

    $testValue = trim(strtolower(iconv($value)));
    if(array_key_exists($testValue, $replacements))
    {
        return $replacements[$testValue];
    }

    return $value;
}

//Usage
$vect = array_map('convertValues', $vect);

Note that I used "global" to avoid redefining the array in the function. Since the function is called as a 'callback' from within the array_map() function you can't pass additional parameters. Well, you can, but it's a little ambiguous and I'm too lazy to look up how it's done. So, one solution would be to make this a class where the replacement values are a property in the class.