Optimum way

[Boris ©avc]

What would be the optimum code for replacing string "xxx" with "yyyyyyy" in
a file? (maybe with str_replace function?)

Thanks,
Boris Savc

[Boris ©avc]

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What would be the optimum code for replacing string "xxx" with "yyyyyyy" in a file? (maybe with str_replace function?)

Thanks,
Boris Savc

but from point where I can find text "START" to point where I can find text
"STOP" only!

Thanks to you all,
Boris Savc

[Pedro Graca]

Boris ©avc wrote:

"Boris ©avc" <bo********@odis-info.com> wrote in message

What would be the optimum code for replacing string "xxx" with "yyyyyyy"
in a file? (maybe with str_replace function?)

but from point where I can find text "START" to point where I can find text
"STOP" only!

I might do that using
http://www.php.net/strpos
http://www.php.net/substr
http://www.php.net/str_replace
<?php
// find the first "START" in $contents
$start = strpos($contents, 'START');
if ($start !== false) {
// find first "STOP" *after* the start
$stop = strpos($contents, 'STOP', $start);
if ($stop !== false) {
$partial_contents = substr($contents, $start, $stop-$start);
$partial_contents = str_replace('xxx', 'yyyyyyy', $partial_contents);
$contents = substr($contents, 0, $start)
. $partial_contents
. substr($contents, $stop);
}
}
// done! $contents changed
?>
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[Boris Savc]

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Boris ©avc wrote:

"Boris ©avc" <bo********@odis-info.com> wrote in message

What would be the optimum code for replacing string "xxx" with "yyyyyyy" in a file? (maybe with str_replace function?)

but from point where I can find text "START" to point where I can find

text "STOP" only!

I might do that using
http://www.php.net/strpos
http://www.php.net/substr
http://www.php.net/str_replace
<?php
// find the first "START" in $contents
$start = strpos($contents, 'START');
if ($start !== false) {
// find first "STOP" *after* the start
$stop = strpos($contents, 'STOP', $start);
if ($stop !== false) {
$partial_contents = substr($contents, $start, $stop-$start);
$partial_contents = str_replace('xxx', 'yyyyyyy', $partial_contents);
$contents = substr($contents, 0, $start)
. $partial_contents
. substr($contents, $stop);
}
}
// done! $contents changed
?>
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Thanks a million times. Great pointers. Have you got maybe some idea how to
find "TEXT 9999" (9999 are random numeric fields) with "TEXT 99 TEXT 99"?

Regards,
Boris Savc

[Pedro Graca]

Boris Savc wrote:

Have you got maybe some idea how to
find "TEXT 9999" (9999 are random numeric fields) with "TEXT 99 TEXT 99"?

????

Try regexps:
http://www.php.net/PCRE

When you start using them you might find "The regex coach" [1] a very
good tool.

[1] http://www.weitz.de/regex-coach/
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[Rahul Anand]

Hi Boris Savc,

Using PCRE function preg_replace the required search and replace can
be implemented by following code:

[SNIP]

$contents = "sdkfnajk nsdnfkafk nsdkf a START jsdfnjkan ndk fnkkfg
xxxkmkxlklxkkxxxx STOP nsdfhvklahdfkh ansbnfj ajdfh xxx fSTOP sdjfh
sdkfj jasdfkl START dsf xxxxxxx h kljsdfh STOP dskfjl; kj;xxx xxxxx";

echo preg_replace("/(START.*xxx.*STOP)/Ue","str_replace('xxx','yyyy','$1')",$contents);

[/SNIP]

This code will replcae all xxx between START & STOP with yyyy.

-- Rahul
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What would be the optimum code for replacing string "xxx" with "yyyyyyy"

in

a file? (maybe with str_replace function?)

Thanks,
Boris Savc

but from point where I can find text "START" to point where I can find text
"STOP" only!

Thanks to you all,
Boris Savc

[Boris ©avc]

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Boris Savc wrote:

Have you got maybe some idea how to
find "TEXT 9999" (9999 are random numeric fields) with "TEXT 99 TEXT

99"?
????

Try regexps:
http://www.php.net/PCRE

When you start using them you might find "The regex coach" [1] a very
good tool.

[1] http://www.weitz.de/regex-coach/
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I can find TEXT 9999 and change it to some TEXT but how about changing it to
TEXT1 99 and TEXT2 99, where 99 and 99 are the digits from original
expression. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Boris Savc

[Pedro Graca]

Boris ©avc wrote:

I can find TEXT 9999 and change it to some TEXT but how about changing it to
TEXT1 99 and TEXT2 99, where 99 and 99 are the digits from original
expression. Any ideas?

Regexps are your friends :)

<?php
$x = 'abc TEXT 5496 def TEXT 0901 ghi';
$y = preg_replace('/TEXT (\d{2})(\d{2})/', 'TEXT1 $1 TEXT2 $2', $x);
echo $x, ' -- ', $y, "\n";
?>
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[Boris Savc]

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Boris ©avc wrote:

I can find TEXT 9999 and change it to some TEXT but how about changing it to TEXT1 99 and TEXT2 99, where 99 and 99 are the digits from original
expression. Any ideas?

Regexps are your friends :)

<?php
$x = 'abc TEXT 5496 def TEXT 0901 ghi';
$y = preg_replace('/TEXT (\d{2})(\d{2})/', 'TEXT1 $1 TEXT2 $2', $x);
echo $x, ' -- ', $y, "\n";
?>
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Thanks again Pedro!

You have really all the answers. Your tip for Regex Coach was great also.
I'm using it all the time. Hope I'll learn my regexps :-) But still one more
question: If I want to do the same with characters let's say XTEXTY change
with XTEXT TEXT TEXT Y how to do that? (\w finds it, but how to do a
replacement?)

Regards,
Boris Savc

[Pedro Graca]

Boris Savc wrote:

But still one more
question: If I want to do the same with characters let's say XTEXTY change
with XTEXT TEXT TEXT Y how to do that? (\w finds it, but how to do a
replacement?)

This one I'll let you figure out by yourself :-)

Parenthesis in the pattern _grab_ their contents into $1, $2, ...
and you can use these references in the substitution part

preg_replace('/
TEXT # match literal TEXT
(\d\d) # match two digits and grab into $1
(\d\d) # match two digits and grab into $2
/x', ## specify extended syntax for regexp

'TEXT $1 TEXT $2', # replace with TEXT (space)
# whatever was grabbed into $1
# (space) TEXT (space)
# and whatever was grabbed into $2
'TEXT8764');

Happy regexing :-)
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Boris ©avc wrote:

I can find TEXT 9999 and change it to some TEXT but how about changing it to TEXT1 99 and TEXT2 99, where 99 and 99 are the digits from original
expression. Any ideas?
Regexps are your friends :)

<?php
$x = 'abc TEXT 5496 def TEXT 0901 ghi';
$y = preg_replace('/TEXT (\d{2})(\d{2})/', 'TEXT1 $1 TEXT2 $2', $x);
echo $x, ' -- ', $y, "\n";
?>
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--= Content-Type: text/plain =--
--= Size below 10001 bytes =--

Thanks again Pedro!

You have really all the answers. Your tip for Regex Coach was great also.
I'm using it all the time. Hope I'll learn my regexps :-) But still one

more question: If I want to do the same with characters let's say XTEXTY change
with XTEXT TEXT TEXT Y how to do that? (\w finds it, but how to do a
replacement?)

Regards,
Boris Savc

Sorry. Found it. It's the same way like with numbers.

Thanks and have a great day,
Boris