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replace string

Nov 21st, 2007

how can I replace who string with certain beginning and ending, for example I have string:
abc........xyz

I want to replace this string with "this is a test", no matter what text in between, only "abc" and "xyz" are fixed.

abc123xyz-->this is a test
abcd1234xyz-->this is a test

any idea?

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Re: replace string

Nov 22nd, 2007

preg_replace()

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Re: replace string

Nov 23rd, 2007

Simple PHP should do it if you do not know regular expressions.

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$string = "abcd123xyz";
 
if((substr($string,0,3)=="abc") && (substr($string,-3)=="xyz"))
{
  $string = "this is a test";
}
 
echo $string;
$string = "abcd123xyz";

if((substr($string,0,3)=="abc") && (substr($string,-3)=="xyz"))
{
  $string = "this is a test";
}

echo $string;