Replacing string elements

[Anon]

Hi,

The example string is:

$string = "This ;bis;b really ;bcool;b";

Could you tell me the easiest way to do following string replacement:

$string = "This <b>is</b> really <b>cool</b>";

So first ;b will be replaced as <b> and second </b> and so on. I know ereg_replace(), but it will replace all ;b's with the same value... Of course I can do this by splitting the string by split(), but are there any better functions to do this?

-Sami

[Anon]

try this:

$newstring = ereg_replace(";b([^;b]*);b", "<b>\1</b>", $string);

That should do the trick. It'll get a little weird if there is a ; in the string, so be careful, or choose another tag.. hope that helps!

Chris King