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some useful functions to replace strings in strings

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| file:             string replace
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| last modified:    Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:41:17 GMT
| downloaded:       Fri, 25 May 2012 03:12:27 GMT as copy from textarea
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| description:
| some useful functions to replace strings in strings
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// Multiple string replace
// expects an array with $string => $replacement
$old_string = 'file_example.txt another_file.txt phpexample.php ';
$replacements = array('_'=>' ',' '=>' ,','.txt'=>' (Text)','.php'=>' (PHP)');
$new_string = strtr($old_string,$replacements);
echo ''.$new_string.'';

// Number Padding, PHP
// Doesn't have to be zeros or numberic but handy for making sure you keep leading zeros on
// day and month values when receiving such values as POST or GET variables.
$no_a = 3;
$no_a = str_pad($no_a, 2, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT);
echo ''.$no_a.'';

// String replacing, PHP
$old_string = 'the qick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.';
$new_string = str_replace('qick brown fox', 'slow black bear', $old_string);
echo ''.$new_string.'';

// Remove tags using preg_replace, PHP
// This should remove anything and everything everything between
// 'less than' and 'greater than' characters
$source_string = 'bold <a href="blank.php">link</a>';
$replacement = '(tag removed)';
$replaced_string = preg_replace('[<.*?.>]', $replacement, $source_string);
echo ''.$replaced_string.'';

// preg_replace can be used with arrays as well
$string = 'The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.';
$patterns = array('/quick/','/brown/','/fox/');
$replacements = array('slow','black','bear');
echo ''.preg_replace($patterns, $replacements, $string).'';

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