RE: [PHP] regexp problem
| From: | Philip Olson | Date: | Mon, 18 Dec 2000 06:12:13 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] regexp problem | ||
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Joe's followup went something like this :
$new_string = str_replace(' the ',' foo ',$old_string);
Regards,
Philip
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On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Peter Johansson (BCS) wrote:
> > If all you want to do is replace a word with another use
> > str_replace() - it's quite a bit faster and just the same thing.
> >
> > $new_string = str_replace('the','foo',$old_string);
>
> Sure it's faster, but do you really want your 'thesaurus' being transformed into
> 'foosaurus? I don't.
>
> ./peter
>
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