| Regex replacing double dashes problem with underscore plus.
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JAB Creations
msg:4311038 | 10:04 pm on May 11, 2011 (gmt 0) |
I have the string "Hello_+ Wo--rld" which I'm trying to replace double dashes however when an instance of "_+" is encountered it replaces it with two dashes. If I remove the plus sign from $d then it won't replace double dashes with single dashes. The only work-around I've been able to get to work is using a second $d regular expression however I'd really like to avoid that. Suggestions please?
- John
<?php
$a = strtolower(Hello_+ Wo--rld");
$b = str_ireplace('_','-',$a);
$c = str_ireplace(' ','-',$b);
$d = preg_replace('/[--]+/','-',$c);
$e = preg_replace('/[^a-z0-9-]/','',$d);
$f = trim($e,'-');
echo $f;
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pinterface
msg:4311367 | 3:37 pm on May 12, 2011 (gmt 0) |
$d = preg_replace('/[--]+/','-',$c); doesn't do what you think it does.
[<stuff>] creates a character class. What that means is it matches a single character, among essentially a list of characters. For instance, [A-Z] matches any character between A and Z. [--] doesn't match two consecutive dashes, it matches a dash. So [--]+ is equivalent to [-]+, which matches one or more dashes.
You want something more like /--+/ or /[-]{2,}/ to match two or more dashes.
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coopster
msg:4311505 | 6:56 pm on May 12, 2011 (gmt 0) |
Example:
[webmasterworld.com...]
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