Case insensitive strreplace alternative?

[Anon]

php4.0.4 - linux

Is there a linux tool (shell cmd, etc.. anything executable via php) that would make a suitable alternative to the currently missing case-insensitive str_replace()?

Regexp features are WAY too slow for my situation (ie. adds 200% to the rendering time of the page and it's only getting worse with the amount of terms needed to be replaced).

(ps. couldn't fit the _ in str_replace into the limited topic length 🙂

[Anon]

preg_replace() is about as fast as it gets. I doubt very much that starting an external program and sending the data back and forth is going to be any faster.

How many microseconds is 200%?
Are you using the Zend optimizer?
How much data are you parsing?

And if speed is such an issue you may want to rethink your program design.
Liek: Do you really have to parse all the text?

Don't sacrifice ease of use for speed!