Re: Phonetic speller function

I looked at the 'sound like' modules in php (leveshtien, soundex) but they are for comparing 2 strings, not creating a string based on what we already have. I see that str_replace supports regular expessions. Without devoting hours learning to write a regex, would it be inappropriate for me to ask how would a regex look that basically says to str_replace "replace the n-th occurence of $was with $willbe" and then I could just loop n==1 n==2 until n==substr_count($data, $was); Did I mention how much I appreciate your help in this matter? I am very impress with the wealth of information the php community is willing to share. Dotan On Monday 17 January 2005 04:41 am, Richard Lynch wrote: > Dotan Cohen wrote: > > kayak. Focusing only on the 'k's I get this array: kayak, cayac. But I > > need > > kayak, kayac, cayak, cayac. > > You may (or may not) be able to get something going with that extra > optional last argument to str_replace which tells how many characters to > replace. > > str_replace('k', 'c', 'kayak', 1) ==> cayak > > You probably should step back and use soundex, or one of the other "sound > like" modules in PHP as Greg suggested though, as a word with THREE k's in > it will maybe be too much hassle...