Limiting Replacements

[Tranced]

Hi, i have a question. If i have something like this==>

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$test = "Hello, this is a test and only a test";

$test_final = str_replace("test","drill",$test);

echo $test;

this will show the text: "Hello, this is a drill and only a drill"

pretty simple right? My question is, how can i limit the amount of times the word "test" is replaced so the string would read something like this:

"Hello, this is a drill and only a test".

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you for your time.

[GBahle]

you could split the string with preg_match at every place the word to be replaced occurs. You'll get an array as result.
Iterating over the array, you can then replace the first x, every xth or the last x occurrences of the searchstring.