How do I replace a '_' with a space ?

[VS]

Hi,

I'm new to PHP, I'm having trouble finding a way to replace a '_' in a
string with a space.

i.e using 'eregi_replace' I want to change

'United_Kingdom' to

'United Kingdom'

--
VS

[fipaj1992]

$string = "United_Kingdom";
$string = str_replace ("_", " ", $string);

Have fun ;)

[Brandon Rohde]

$my_string = "United_Kingdom";
$my_new_string = str_replace("_", " ", $my_string);
echo "$my_new_string"; //this will output United Kingdom

When you use str_replace(), you need to give it 3 elements. The first is the
character you want to replace, the second is the character to replace it
with, and the third is the string you want to modify.

You can find more info on it at www.php.net/str_replace
--
-Brandon Rohde

"VS" <[e-mail]> wrote in message
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Hi,

I'm new to PHP, I'm having trouble finding a way to replace a '_' in a
string with a space.

i.e using 'eregi_replace' I want to change

'United_Kingdom' to

'United Kingdom'

--
VS

[Hero Wanders]

Hello!

echo "$my_new_string"; //this will output United Kingdom

Why do you use
echo "$my_new_string";
instead of
echo $my_new_string;
?
Greetings,
Hero Wanders

[Brandon Rohde]

Well, using the method without quotes is obviously fine for just printing
the variable. It's late at night, so I added the quotes by habit :)

--
-Brandon Rohde

"Hero Wanders" <he*******@nexgo.de> wrote in message
news:di*************@news.t-online.com...

Hello!

echo "$my_new_string"; //this will output United Kingdom

Why do you use
echo "$my_new_string";
instead of
echo $my_new_string;
?
Greetings,
Hero Wanders

[fipaj1992]

> It's late at night, so I added the quotes by habit :)

Hehe, in Poland that's two o'clock :P

[Hero Wanders]

Hello!

Well, using the method without quotes is obviously fine for just printing
the variable. It's late at night, so I added the quotes by habit :)

Hmm, i _never_ use "$foo".
Concatenation is done by using the dot:
$foo.$bar.$baz (not "$foo$bar$baz").

Please explaing your habit :-)

Greetings,
Hero Wanders

[Oliver Saunders]

> $string = "United_Kingdom";

$string = str_replace ("_", " ", $string);

couldn't you also use preg_replace()? would that be faster?

[Oli Filth]

Oliver Saunders said the following on 18/10/2005 18:06:

$string = "United_Kingdom";
$string = str_replace ("_", " ", $string);

couldn't you also use preg_replace()? would that be faster?

You could preg_replace(), but I would imagine it would be orders of
magnitude slower, because regex-based matching is far more complex than
simple sub-string matching.

--
Oli

[Samuel]

If Brandon is like me, he took the habit from frequently doing things
like

echo "Hi, my name is $name and my age is $age!";

Greetings

[f3l_]

$string = str_replace ("United_Kingdom", "United Kingdom", $string);

is that what you want?

/f3l

[Joe Estock]

Samuel wrote:

If Brandon is like me, he took the habit from frequently doing things
like

echo "Hi, my name is $name and my age is $age!";

Greetings

Please leave enough of the original post intact so that those with
clients who expire posts faster than others know what the context is.

Just because this is the habit you picked up, it does not make it a good
habit to have. Why would you have php do the contatenation and provide
additional overhead when you can do it yourself? If it's a matter of
laziness, then you should rethink your profession.

-Joe

[Samuel]

>Just because this is the habit you picked up, it does not make it a good

habit to have. Why would you have php do the contatenation and provide
additional overhead when you can do it yourself? If it's a matter of
laziness, then you should rethink your profession.

Whoa. You just read a casual comment and in 50 words jumped to the
conclussion that I should sit back and reconsider my entire
professional life. That's got to be a new world record or something,
specially considering I never said it was a good habit...