Re: Regular expressions

Your three str_replace calls might be faster anyway... -- WARNING richard@zend.com address is an endangered species -- Use ceo@l-i-e.com Wanna help me out? Like Music? Buy a CD: http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm Volunteer a little time: http://chatmusic.com/volunteer.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: Philip Murray <me@philth.net.nz> Newsgroups: php.general To: PHP General List <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 12:31 AM Subject: Regular expressions > In Perl you can do this: > > $foo =~ tr/012/mpf/; > > Which is the same as: > > $foo = str_replace("0", "m", $foo); > $foo = str_replace("1", "p", $foo); > $foo = str_replace("2", "f", $foo); > > in PHP. > > Is there a more elegant way of doing this in PHP? I tried preg_replace but > it didn't seem to like my regexp. > > Any ideas? > > -------------------------------- - -- - - - > Philip Murray > me@philth.net.nz > ------------- - -- - - >