Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=60974&edit=1
ID: 60974
User updated by: jonathan at scriptwriterthingy dot com
Reported by: jonathan at scriptwriterthingy dot com
Summary: request for function similar to strpbrk but with
replace features
Status: Analyzed
Type: Feature/Change Request
Package: *General Issues
Operating System: Linux/CentOS
PHP Version: Irrelevant
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
"This sounds like strtr() to me"
According to the php docs strstr says it "Returns part of haystack string from
the first occurrence of needle to the end of haystack." - it doesn't say
anything about replacing characters which is the main difference between my
request and the current strpbrk() function.
My request does have some similarities to str_replace() as mentioned above but
would do so strings instead of arrays.
Previous Comments:
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[2012-02-03 20:28:06] [email protected]
This sounds like strtr() to me
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[2012-02-03 20:21:05] jonathan at scriptwriterthingy dot com
Description:
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>From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.strpbrk
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This is a great function I wasn't aware of until recently. I love that it can
find any character from a list of characters - very useful for filtering data.
Would be even better if there were a similar function that replaced any matched
character listed in the input string with:
1) a single specified character,
2) a character from a list/string of characters (similar to what you do with
str_replace but without the need for arrays)
3) a random character from the supplied list of characters mentioned in item 2.
#1 on that list is the most important of my request. #2 and 3 would be nice to
have but I can live without as str_replace already does some of this but
requires arrays.
Test script:
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Partial demo of concept
$char_list = "-!@#$%^&*()+=-/?.>,<;:"; //characters we want to remove
$input_string = "Some data that's not supposed to have $puncuation!";
$replace_string = '';
$result_string = strpbrk_replace($input_string, $char_list, $replace_string);
Expected result:
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And hopefully the result string looks like this:
"Some data that's not supposed to have puncuation"
Or if $replace_string had = ' ';
"Some data that's not supposed to have puncuation "
Actual result:
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See above...
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