note 40056 added to function.str-replace

For those who haven't yet updated to PHP 5 yet, here is a quick function to do regular str_replace on a string [not arrays] only a certain number of times: <?php function str_replace_count($find,$replace,$subject,$count) { $subjectnew = $subject; $pos = strpos($subject,$find); if ($pos !== FALSE) { while ($pos !== FALSE) { $nC = $nC + 1; $temp = substr($subjectnew,$pos+strlen($find)); $subjectnew = substr($subjectnew,0,$pos) . $replace . $temp; if ($nC >= $count) { break; } $pos = strpos($subjectnew,$find); } // closes the while loop } // closes the if return $subjectnew; } $stuff = "a b a b a b a b a"; print $stuff . " -- the old string<br>\n"; print str_replace_count("a ","c ",$stuff,4) . " -- the new string<br>\n"; // will output c b c b c b c b a -- the new string ?> Hope this helps. ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.str-replace.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+40056 Delete -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+40056&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+40056&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php