From: Operating system: Linux/CentOS PHP version: Irrelevant Package: *General Issues Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description:request for function similar to strpbrk but with replace features
Description: ------------ --- >From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.strpbrk --- This is a great function I wasn't aware of until recently. I love that it can find any character from a list of characters - very useful for filtering data. Would be even better if there were a similar function that replaced any matched character listed in the input string with: 1) a single specified character, 2) a character from a list/string of characters (similar to what you do with str_replace but without the need for arrays) 3) a random character from the supplied list of characters mentioned in item 2. #1 on that list is the most important of my request. #2 and 3 would be nice to have but I can live without as str_replace already does some of this but requires arrays. Test script: --------------- Partial demo of concept $char_list = "-!@#$%^&*()+=-/?.>,<;:"; //characters we want to remove $input_string = "Some data that's not supposed to have $puncuation!"; $replace_string = ''; $result_string = strpbrk_replace($input_string, $char_list, $replace_string); Expected result: ---------------- And hopefully the result string looks like this: "Some data that's not supposed to have puncuation" Or if $replace_string had = ' '; "Some data that's not supposed to have puncuation " Actual result: -------------- See above... -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=60974&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=60974&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=60974&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=60974&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=60974&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=60974&r=needdocs Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=60974&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=60974&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=60974&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=60974&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=60974&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=60974&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=60974&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=60974&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=60974&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=60974&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=60974&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=60974&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=60974&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=60974&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=60974&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=60974&r=mysqlcfg
