Ereg Replace Help

[SP8600]

Just wondering how can i replace more than one thing because with this i can only do one, or so i think.

$info = $row["info"]; $info2 = ereg_replace("\n","<br>",$info);

[cgraz]

What do you mean? You gotta be more specific.

Cgraz

[SP8600]

How do i replace more than one thing. Because i have that <br> tag to do and need to replace £ signs aswell but i cant seam to replace more than one thing with that code. How can it be done.

[stick_figure]

You mean as such:

$info = $row['info'];
$info = ereg_replace("\n", "<br>", $info);
$info = ereg_replace('string', 'string', $info);

Is that kind of what you mean?

[SP8600]

That doesnt seam to work, well i tried it like this:

$info_area = $invoice_row["info"];		
			$info_area2 = ereg_replace("\n","<br>",$info_area);
			$info_area2 = ereg_replace("a","A",$info_area);

It will only process the first one. So if i have the "a" change first it will do that but not the line breaks. And vice versa.

[cgraz]

Well that's because you forgot the 2

$info_area = $invoice_row["info"];        

            $info_area2 = ereg_replace("\n","<br>",$info_area);
            $info_area2 = ereg_replace("a","A",$info_area);

On the second ereg_replace, you're replacing a with A in a variable called info_area

But prior to that, you created a new variable called info_area2, so your second ereg_replace should be replacing a with A in variable info_area2

$info_area = $invoice_row["info"];        

            $info_area2 = ereg_replace("\n","<br>",$info_area);
            $info_area2 = ereg_replace("a","A",$info_area2);

But there's no need to create new variables, you can keep the same variable name

$info_area = $invoice_row["info"];        

            $info_area = ereg_replace("\n","<br>",$info_area);
            $info_area = ereg_replace("a","A",$info_area);

Cgraz

[SP8600]

Thanks for your help its working perfect now 🙂

[cgraz]

No problem.

I noticed you're replacing a with A. You're not going to do that for every letter of the alphabet are you? You said you're running a few of those ereg's, and in case you are, take a look at php's string functions

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.strings.php

In particular, strtoupper() for making a string uppercase.

Anyways, just something to watch out for to make your life easier.

Cgraz

[SP8600]

I'm not changing all the letters i just put that there for an example. Anyway i will have a look at that string link