eregi_replace
(PHP 4, PHP 5)
eregi_replace — Replace regular expression case insensitive
This function was DEPRECATED in PHP 5.3.0, and REMOVED in PHP 7.0.0.
Alternatives to this function include:
- preg_replace() (with the
i(PCRE_CASELESS) modifier)
Description
eregi_replace ( string $pattern , string $replacement , string $string ) : string
This function is identical to ereg_replace() except that this ignores case distinction when matching alphabetic characters.
Parameters
-
pattern -
A POSIX extended regular expression.
-
replacement -
If
patterncontains parenthesized substrings,replacementmay contain substrings of the form\digit, which will be replaced by the text matching the digit'th parenthesized substring;\0will produce the entire contents of string. Up to nine substrings may be used. Parentheses may be nested, in which case they are counted by the opening parenthesis. -
string -
The input string.
Return Values
The modified string is returned. If no matches are found in string, then it will be returned unchanged.
Examples
Example #1 Highlight search results
<?php
$pattern = '(>[^<]*)('. quotemeta($_GET['search']) .')';
$replacement = '\\1<span class="search">\\2</span>';
$body = eregi_replace($pattern, $replacement, $body);
?> See Also
- ereg() - Regular expression match
- eregi() - Case insensitive regular expression match
- ereg_replace() - Replace regular expression
- preg_replace() - Perform a regular expression search and replace
- quotemeta() - Quote meta characters
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