ereg replace function

[amrigo]

Hi
This function is not working i cant see why if ayone sees the error please tell me!

function clean_string($clean_string ) {
$clean_string = ereg_replace( "ç", "c", $clean_string);
$clean_string = ereg_replace( ";", "", $clean_string);
$clean_string = ereg_replace( ".", "", $clean_string);
$clean_string = ereg_replace( ",", "", $clean_string);
$clean_string = ereg_replace( "(([áàâãä]))", "a", $clean_string);
$clean_string = ereg_replace( "(([éèêë]))", "e", $clean_string);
$clean_string = ereg_replace( "(([íìîï]))", "i", $clean_string);
$clean_string = ereg_replace( "(([óòôõö]))", "o", $clean_string);
$clean_string = ereg_replace( "(([úùûü]))", "u", $clean_string);
$clean_string = ereg_replace( "(([ÁÀÂÃÄ]))", "A", $clean_string);
$clean_string = ereg_replace( "(([ÉÈÊË]))", "E", $clean_string);
$clean_string = ereg_replace( "(([ÍÌÎÏ]))", "I", $clean_string);
$clean_string = ereg_replace( "(([ÓÒÔÕÖ]))", "O", $clean_string);
$clean_string = ereg_replace( "(([ÚÙÛÜ]))", "U", $clean_string);
$clean_string = strtoupper($clean_string);
return $clean_string;
}

[LordShryku]

Why are you using ereg_replace? Simple replacements like that could be accomplished with [man]str_replace[/man].

As it is, are none of the replacements working? Or are only some of them not working?

[amrigo]

just lazyness !

i research a function that works with str_replace (and it is working )

but have much more lines than ereg_replace version, with two loooooong arrays . (match and replace)

The function with ereg_replace is more easy to maintain and extend.

the value this ereg_replace function return is null
To me this function using ereg_replace is supposed to work ....

[dnast]

$clean_string = ereg_replace( ".", "", $clean_string);

I think that's your culprit. The dot needs a couple slashes in front of it, else the function replaces every character with "" in this case since (.) is a wildcard.

 $clean_string = ereg_replace( "\\\\.", "", $clean_string);

[man]str_replace[/man] and [man]preg_replace[/man] are much faster. Also you can do the replacement in one command with either of these. Also, I don't use ereg much, but I think those ( ) are unnecessary, and since you're doing strtoupper() you can combine the lower- and uppercase lines.

i.e.

 $clean_string = ereg_replace( "(([áàâãäÁÀÂÃÄ]))", "A", $clean_string);

[amrigo]

here the function with str_replace . the search array order must always match the change array (there is an easyer way?):

function filter_text ($original) {
$search = array(
"à", "á", "â", "ã", "ä", "À", "Á", "Â", "Ã", "Ä",
"è", "é", "ê", "ë", "È", "É", "Ê", "Ë",
"ì", "í", "î", "ï", "Ì", "Í", "Î", "Ï",
"ó", "ò", "ô", "õ", "ö", "Ó", "Ò", "Ô", "Õ", "Ö",
"ú", "ù", "û", "ü", "Ú", "Ù", "Û", "Ü",
",", ".", ";", ":", "`", "´", "<", ">", "?", "}",
"{", "ç", "Ç", "~", "^"
);
$change = array(
"a", "a", "a", "a", "a", "A", "A", "A", "A", "A",
"e", "e", "e", "e", "E", "E", "E", "E",
"i", "i", "i", "i", "I", "I", "I", "I",
"o", "o", "o", "o", "o", "O", "O", "O", "O", "O",
"u", "u", "u", "u", "U", "U", "U", "U",
" ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ",
" ", "c", "C", " ", " "
);

$filtered = strtoupper(str_replace($search,$change,$original)); 
return $filtered; 

}