regular expressions

mike_y

Reposting my original question from yesterday:
Hello,
I was wodering if someone can tell me if the following is possible with regular expressions. I have a variable that contains text. (A paragraph or two...)
I need to replace all occurances of "make" "take" "phase" etc.. with "meik" "teik" "pheis"...
So basically a combination of "a?e" becomes "ei?" kinda like misspeling those words...
Any ideas how to implement?
-Mike

cordex

$string = preg_replace('/([aA])([a-zA-Z0-9])([eE])/', 'ei\2', $string);

mike_y

thanks... i ended up doing something similar:
$text = preg_replace("/(a(.)e)/e", "ei$2", $text);
-Mike

Anon

Hello Mike,

do you HAVE to solve the problem using rexp??

why don´t you use the PHP-function 'str_replace'?

$sentence="Shake your leg, make my day";
$new_sentence=str_replace("ae","ei",$sentence);

=>"Sheike your leg, meike my day"

hth
Chris

cordex

your preg statement doesn't work for anything but all-lower case.

that's the only real benefit of mine.

cordex

because he doesn't want
=>"Sheike your leg, meike my day"

He wants
=>"Sheik your leg, meik my day"

mike_y

It has to be done with RE.
You piece of code shouldn't work because
"Shake your leg, make my day"
has no occurances of "ei" and therefore str_replace() wouldn't work.
-Mike