> <?php // this will produce JIM JONES
>
> function replace($string, $search)
> {
> $string = strstr($string, $search)
> $string = preg_replace("/(<|\^|>)/", "",$string);
> $string = str_replace("_", " ", $string);
> return $string;
>
> }
>
> $text = 'My name is <^JIM_JONES> and I like ice cream';
> $search_string = '<^JIM_JONES>';
> echo replace($text, $search_string);
>
> ?>
This is a pretty good solution, however for the sake of paranoia about
potentially removing characters that Will may not want targeted by the
function (i.e., what if "<", ">", "^" or "_" legitimately appear later in
the string and are accidentally removed?), I'd do something like the
following:
<?
function replace($string){
preg_match("/^<\^([a-zA-Z]+?)_([a-zA-Z]+?)>/", $string, $matcharr);
$string = str_replace($matcharr[0], $matcharr[1] . " " .$matcharr[2]
. ":", $string);
return $string;
}
$string = "<^JIM_JONES> Leicester, 1720. Oxford, 1800 CONFIRMED: meeting at
19.10";
echo replace($string);
?>
One of the small benefits of this solution is that Will doesn't need to know
what is contained in the target substring beforehand.
Regards,
Murray
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