Re: str_replace fails with preset arrays

You should probably be using strtr() for this. Anyway, questions about developing WITH PHP should go to the php-general list, instead of php-dev (which is for developing PHP itself). Regards, Manuzhai "Izx" <izx@izx.yoll.net> wrote in message news:20020425055241.26929.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > Hi ppl, > > $xarray=('ab', 'ba'); > $xsearch=array('a', 'b'); > $xreplace=array('c', 'd'); > $xarray=str_replace($xsearch, $xreplace, $xarray); > > str_replace used this way fails, returning $xarray unmodified. However: > > $xarray=str_replace(array('a', 'b'), array('c', 'd'), > $xarray); > > works OK. > > Any solutions why str_replace doesn't work with externally defined arrays? > > TIA, > izx > >