2008/2/27 Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On 27/02/2008, Zoltán Németh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > sorry that's messed up a bit, as I typed it right here in my mailer ;)
> >
> > preg_replace('/\b([^\s]+)a\b.*/U', '$1A', 'whatever i want that hasa a
> > on the end');
> >
> > greets
> >
> > Zoltán Németh
> >
>
> Thank you very much, Zoltan. Is there a known UTF-8 limitation?
> Because it works fine for me in English letters (well, the opposite of
> what I needed but I was able to work with it as which polar I start
> with was arbitrary), but not in Hebrew letters. For instance, this
> works as expected:
>
> $test="aabacada aa a f";
> $test=preg_replace('/\b([^\s]+)a\b.*/U', '$1A', $test);
> print $test; // PRINTS aabacadA aA a f
>
> However, this does not:
>
> $test="אאבאגאדא אא א ";
> $test=preg_replace('/\b([^\s]+)ע\b.*/U', '$1א', $test);
> print $test; // PRINTS אאבאגאדא אא א
>
> Am I misunderstanding something, or is there a UTF-8 problem, or
> something else? Thank you for your assistance, it is much appreciated
> and I'm learning what I can.
>
>
>
> Dotan Cohen
>
> http://what-is-what.com
> http://gibberish.co.il
> א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת
>
> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
>
The "a" character (97) is different from the "א" character (1488).
$a = html_entity_decode('א');
$test=preg_replace('/\b([^\s]+)' . $a . '\b.*/U', '$1A', $test);
Will this work?
--
-Casey
