RE: [PHP] Odd Strpos Behavior

2002-12-16 Thread Steve Keller
At 12/14/2002 12:50 AM, John W. Holmes wrote: > And here's a good example of why you should always test each solution > and time it to see what's better. I was recommending a > preg_replace_callback solution which I thought, as a lot of other people > would also think, is a lot faster that your ow

RE: [PHP] Odd Strpos Behavior

2002-12-13 Thread John W. Holmes
Holmes... PHP Architect - A monthly magazine for PHP Professionals. Get your copy today. http://www.phparch.com/ > -Original Message- > From: Steve Keller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 5:09 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [PHP] Odd St

RE: [PHP] Odd Strpos Behavior

2002-12-13 Thread John W. Holmes
> >Okay, so how do you know what to replace something like [author] with? > >What exactly are you doing again? I've forgotten the original question. > >:) > > Ok, got a sentence, like: > > a pile of [metal] 600 feet wide and 30 feet tall. On top of it is > a [monster]. > > The items in

Re: [PHP] Odd Strpos Behavior

2002-12-13 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
ime right now, though, to do it. ---John Holmes... - Original Message - From: "Steve Keller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 5:09 PM Subject: RE: [PHP] Odd Strpos Behavior > At 12/11/2002 08:09 PM, you wrote: >

RE: [PHP] Odd Strpos Behavior

2002-12-13 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
> -Original Message- > From: Steve Keller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 12 December 2002 22:09 > > At 12/11/2002 08:09 PM, you wrote: > > >Okay, so how do you know what to replace something like > [author] with? > >What exactly are you doing again? I've forgotten the > original que

RE: [PHP] Odd Strpos Behavior

2002-12-12 Thread Steve Keller
At 12/11/2002 08:09 PM, you wrote: Okay, so how do you know what to replace something like [author] with? What exactly are you doing again? I've forgotten the original question. :) Ok, got a sentence, like: a pile of [metal] 600 feet wide and 30 feet tall. On top of it is a [monster].

RE: [PHP] Odd Strpos Behavior

2002-12-11 Thread John W. Holmes
> >It'd be easier to use a regular expression for something like this. > >Something like this would work (from PHP Architect): > > > >$s = "I am going to be {a} years old on the {b}th of November, {c}."; > >$a = array( > >"a" => "one hundred", > >"b" => "seventeen", > >"c" => "two thousand two"); >

RE: [PHP] Odd Strpos Behavior

2002-12-11 Thread Steve Keller
At 12/9/2002 07:20 PM, you wrote: It'd be easier to use a regular expression for something like this. Something like this would work (from PHP Architect): $s = "I am going to be {a} years old on the {b}th of November, {c}."; $a = array( "a" => "one hundred", "b" => "seventeen", "c" => "two thous

Re: Fwd: RE: [PHP] Odd Strpos Behavior

2002-12-11 Thread Steve Keller
At 12/10/2002 03:43 PM, you wrote: John's suggestion of using '{', and '}' as the tag delimiters was to simplify the regex. You can continue to use '[', and ']' as your delimiters, just change the regex accordingly -- and don't forget that '[', and ']' needs to be escaped. Ah, all right. That w

Re: Fwd: RE: [PHP] Odd Strpos Behavior

2002-12-09 Thread Jason Wong
On Tuesday 10 December 2002 09:45, Steve Keller wrote: > At 12/9/2002 07:20 PM, John W. Holmes wrote: > > It'd be easier to use a regular expression for something like this. > > Something like this would work (from PHP Architect): > > I appreciate that, but considering I'm working from about 120

Fwd: RE: [PHP] Odd Strpos Behavior

2002-12-09 Thread Steve Keller
At 12/9/2002 07:20 PM, John W. Holmes wrote: > It'd be easier to use a regular expression for something like this. > Something like this would work (from PHP Architect): I appreciate that, but considering I'm working from about 1200 files that already exist and use [] to denote table names, I k

RE: [PHP] Odd Strpos Behavior

2002-12-09 Thread John W. Holmes
> I'm getting a really weird return from Strpos. What I'm doing is this, and > anyone familiar with any of the table-runner programs for RPG's will know > what I'm getting at here, I have a fields, like [adjective], [noun], etc., > which I need to pull out and replace with values from included php