Best way to search multi-values and replace in a document

[mrbippy]

What would be the best way for me to search through an entire document, maybe 5 or 6 pages and replace 25 or so different values with 25 or so new pieces of data?

Should I try to do it one word at a time, a line at a time, how?

[whoismikey]

I would like to know this as well

[khaine]

When you say search 5 or 6 pages to replace a value I assume you mean that you look at for example a html script and replace '!1!' with 'dear sir/madam' if this is the case all you need to do is use the str_replace function.
To do this you need to get all the info into on long string say read it in from a file.

$filecontents=file("/path/to/file/filename");
then perform the replace on this long string.

$newstr=str_replace("!1!", "Dear Sir/Madam", $filecontents);
$filecontents=$newstr;

Then you can echo the string to the screen or write it back to a file.

Mark.

[mrbippy]

Here is what I did:

$cont_res = mysql_query("SELECT content FROM User_Files");

$con = mysql_fetch_array($cont_res);

$search_vals = array("<<Val One>>", "<<Val Two>>", etc...);

$replace_vals = array($val_a, $val_b, etc...);

$new_data = str_replace($search_vals, $replace_vals, $con[content]);

echo $new_data;

I made sure that the search & replace vals were in the same order in their respective arrays.

Thanks