note 83959 added to function.str-replace

On the 13th of May, John wrote (with what I -perhaps incorrectly- identified as 'sarcasm') an article in which he described a way to replace double characters with single ones. "It passes. You're done!", he wrote euphorically, apparently without testing his own code --because his smash function fails with a Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ';', expecting '{' Lesson to be learned: be very, very careful when you're being very, very cocky. :-) ---- Server IP: 213.249.64.162 Probable Submitter: 24.132.252.217 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.str-replace.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/83959 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/83959/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/83959/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/83959/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/83959/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/83959/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/83959/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/83959 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/83959 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php