Array str_replace
Does str_replace with an array only work on a row by row basis?
And when using it is there a way to say only if match the whole contents and not a partial match on the array element.
And when using it is there a way to say only if match the whole contents and not a partial match on the array element.
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It's thousands of rows in an array and each row has about 20 elements.
I'm thinking it might be easier to just load the file into a string and do a mass replace on everything I need replaceing and then parse it into an array.
I'm thinking it might be easier to just load the file into a string and do a mass replace on everything I need replaceing and then parse it into an array.
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Thanks for the points, ~Ray
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I would choose the way that makes the most sense programaticallyDoing a mass replace (using the delimiter to identify the whole field) is a lot easier than trying to process on an element by element and row by row basis - just thinking about coding that made the mass replace the best route (which takes one line).
http://php.net/manual/en/function.str-replace.php
The simplest rules are all you get with str_replace() so if you want greater specificity your best choice is preg_replace()