Re: Regular Expressions

Robert Cummings wrote:

On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 23:24 -0300, Martin Alterisio wrote:

2007/11/6, Alberto García Gómez <alberto@ipimtzcm.rimed.cu>:

I'm a mess in regular expressions and I make this code: $link = ereg_replace('&ntilde;','n',$link); $link = ereg_replace('&aacute;','a',$link); $link = ereg_replace('&eacute;','e',$link); $link = ereg_replace('&iacute;','i',$link); $link = ereg_replace('&oacute;','o',$link); $link = ereg_replace('&uacute;','u',$link); I ask if is a way to make those lines into a single one but working as well as this piece. I'm thinking in increase those lines so will be wonderful if I can optimize the code.

<?php

    $map = array
    (
        'ñ', 'n',
        'á', 'a',
        'é', 'e',
        'í', 'i',
        'ó', 'o',
        'ú', 'u',

one mistake, your commas above, between the index and value, should be a "=>" instead

    );

    $link =
        str_replace(
            array_keys( $map ), array_values( $map ), $link );

?> The only way to make it faster is to build the key array and value array separately, but then the association is not so clear. Cheers, Rob.

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