stevepatd Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 I have a web form that has the user entering their email address. I've seen some common spelling mistakes and would like to fix those as I process the form data. It all works except when I'm trying to replace yahooo with yahoo. It stays as yahooo. I tried replacing yahooo with yahoo11 and I got yahoo11o. I tried replacing yahoo with 'thisisatest' and I got 'thisisatesto'. Is there something special about 'ooo'? So I tried searching for yahhhh, yahaaa and oooyaha and the program had no problems replacing them with yahoo (when coded for it). I've tried preg_replace and str_replace with the same results. Any idea what is happening here? Trial 1: $email = preg_replace('/yahooo/i','yahoo',$email); Trial 2: $email = str_replace('yahooo','thisisatest',$email); Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/295158-search-and-replace-ooo/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barand Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 I'm guessing there is something else going on $email = 'fred@yahooo.com'; $email = str_replace('yahooo','yahoo',$email); echo $email; //--> fred@yahoo.com Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/295158-search-and-replace-ooo/#findComment-1507846 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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