eregi_replace
(PHP 4, PHP 5)
eregi_replace — Replace regular expression case insensitive
Description
string eregi_replace
( string $pattern
, string $replacement
, string $string
)
Parameters
-
pattern
-
A POSIX extended regular expression.
-
replacement
-
If pattern
contains parenthesized substrings,
replacement
may contain substrings of the form
\\digit, which will be
replaced by the text matching the digit'th parenthesized substring;
\\0 will 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);
?>
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