Re: Regular Express - preg_replace - matching whole phrases

From	Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.php
Subject	Re: Regular Express - preg_replace - matching whole phrases
Date	2016-05-29 18:58 +0100
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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Steve <StevePBurgess@gmail.com> writes:

> I am doing some replacements on text using arrays e.g.
>
> $text="Everyone loves apple and banana smoothies";
> $searcharray=array("/\bBanana\b/i","/\bApple\b/i","/\bTomatoes\b/i");
> $replacearray=array("Toffee","Soup","Breadsticks");
>
> $newtext=preg_replace($searcharray,$replacearray,$text);
>
>
> I'm using \b so that only full words are replaced and \i to make the
> match case insensitive.

(You mean /i)

> It all works fine - but when I want to search for, say...
>
>        Pineapple...
>
> i.e. a word with punctuation after it, it doesn't work.
>
> I've tried escaping the .s to no avail...

Maybe you left the \b in there?  Maybe you did not escape the escape
character correctly?  Much better to show what did not work.

> Any ideas?

  "\bBanana\\.\\.\\."

works for me.

-- 
Ben.

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Regular Express - preg_replace - matching whole phrases Steve <StevePBurgess@gmail.com> - 2016-05-29 07:41 -0700
  Re: Regular Express - preg_replace - matching whole phrases Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2016-05-29 17:25 +0200
  Re: Regular Express - preg_replace - matching whole phrases Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-05-29 18:58 +0100

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