Quick Regex Help

[meigwil]

Hi,

I'm trying to write a simple regex to encode spacial characters.

I want to find either a^ or o^ in a block of text, and replace them with â or ô.

I've tried this but it does not seem to work:

function checkAccent($text){
        $pat[0] = "/^a\^$/";
	$pat[1] = "/^o\^$/";
	$rep[0] = "â";
	$rep[1] = "ô";
  echo preg_replace($pat, $rep, $text);

}

I also unsuccesfully tried

        $pat[0] = "/^a\\^$/";
	$pat[1] = "/^o\\^/$";
// and
        $pat[0] = "/a\^/";
	$pat[1] = "/o\^/";
// and
        $pat[0] = "/a\\^/";
	$pat[1] = "/o\\^/";

Anyone?

Thanks,

Mei

[laserlight]

You could consider using [man]str_replace/man instead:

$search = array('a^', 'o^');
$replace = array('â', 'ô');

$text = str_replace($search, $replace, $text);

[meigwil]

Thanks! I'll try that and report back.

Mei