Re: [PHP4BETA] suggestion for new function str_change(string str,array transtable [,bool reverse])

Do you want it to be able to substitute only one character strings or is it supposed to be general? For example taking your example do you want to allow: $trans = array("ue" => "ü","ss" => "ß"); // expand german umlauts Andi At 11:25 AM 11/20/99 +0100, Thies C. Arntzen wrote:

lets start with this - i don't like the name function should search/replace a number of pairs in str and return the new string. sample: $trans = array("ü" => "ue","ß" => "ss"); // expand german umlauts $data = str_change("üß",$trans); // $data will be "uess"; // 3th argumet changed the "direction" in the transtable $data = str_change($data,$trans,true); // $data will be "üß" again. this function will make it easy to eg reverse an htmlspecialchars(). we could also make the table used by htmlspecialchars() and htmlentites() accessible in transtable format: $tt = get_htmltable(ISO-8859-1); // returns "EntTable" from html.c $plaindata = str_change($htmlencodeddata,$tt,1); // reverse htmlentities does that make sense? (any better ideas?) tc

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