problem with ereg_replace

[ovisopa]

Hello ppl.

I have a question about this function ereg_replace

Can I replace 3 words at the same time, like in my exemple...
This is the string from scorpion.dat:

There: 8
*C ; </

And this is the script I made

$s = fread($fh, filesize("scorpion.dat"));
echo ereg_replace( ":", " are", $s );

There are 8*C ;</

What I want is to raplece the * with &deg; and ; with nothing

I want to see this result

There are 8&deg;C </

[AQHost]

Hi,

I don't believe there's an easy way to do this in one step, however there's no reason why you shouldn't structure your code like this:

$s = fread($fh, filesize("scorpion.dat")); 
$s= ereg_replace( ":", " are", $s );
$s= ereg_replace( "\\*", "°", $s );
$s= ereg_replace( ";", "", $s );
echo $s;

Best wishes,
Simon.

[winterbeef]

You can do it in one step, but it makes your code harder to read, and I don't know if that's worth it. Readability is a high priority for me -- you may differ:

preg_replace manual

echo preg_replace(array('/*/','/;/'), array('°',''), $s);

HTH