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user3371961
user3371961

Reputation: 33

replace data in array with str_replace function

i have an array named $data

$data = array(
                    'word1'=>'Šššš',
                    'word2'=>'Zzzzžzzž',
                    'word3'=>'Āāāa'
                    );

what i want to do is to create new array with the same keys but with different values, so my new array would look like this: 

$newdata = array(
                    'word1'=>'Ssss',
                    'word2'=>'Zzzzzzzz',
                    'word3'=>'Aaaa'
                    );

all i want to do is to replace letters with diacritical mark to normal letter, i have searched for php functions and i have understood that i could use str_replace function like this: 

$search  = array('Ā', 'ā', 'Š', 'š', 'Ž', 'ž');
$replace = array('A', 'a', 'S', 's', 'Ž', ž);
str_replace($search, $replace, $data);

but how can i loop through array checking and replacing values without touching keys? or i cannot do that?(all data have to be be checked)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1558

Answers (6)

Oscar M.
Oscar M.

Reputation: 1086

The third parameter, $subject for the str_replace function can be an array. So no need to loop through the values yourself. Tested on php 5.5, it'll keep your keys and values intact

$search  = array('Ā', 'ā', 'Š', 'š', 'Ž', 'ž');
$replace = array('A', 'a', 'S', 's', 'Z', 'z');

$data = array(
            'word1'=>'Šššš',
            'word2'=>'Zzzzžzzž',
            'word3'=>'Āāāa'
);

$data = str_replace($search, $replace, $data);

Upvotes: 1

Tim F
Tim F

Reputation: 26

To answer your question you can use a foreach with a reference:

$search  = array('Ā', 'ā', 'Š', 'š');
$replace = array('A', 'a', 'S', 's');
foreach ($data as &$word) {
    $word = str_replace($search, $replace, $word);
}

However, an easier way would to use a foreach with normalizer_normalize:

foreach ($data as &$word) {
    $word = normalizer_normalize($word);
}

or using array_map:

$data = array_map('normalizer_normalize', $data);

Please note that normalizer_normalize was added to the core in PHP 5.3, but in most linux distributions it isn't active by default.

You can also try out iconv():

foreach ($data as &$word) {
    $word = iconv('UTF-8', 'ASCII//TRANSLIT', $word);
}

Upvotes: 0

EquinoxMatt
EquinoxMatt

Reputation: 83

A foreach works well 

    $data = array(
                'word1'=>'Šššš',
                'word2'=>'Zzzzžzzž',
                'word3'=>'Āāāa'
                );

    $search  = array('Ā', 'ā', 'Š', 'š', 'Ž', 'ž');
    $replace = array('A', 'a', 'S', 's', 'Ž', ž);      

    foreach($data as $k => $v) { // for each element in $data
        $data[$k] = str_replace($search, $replace, $v); // do replacement and assign back to the array.
    }

    print "<pre>"; print_r($data); print "</pre>"; // print formatted array

Upvotes: 0

shatheesh
shatheesh

Reputation: 633

Try this

function splReplace($string)
{
    $search  = array('Ā', 'ā', 'Š', 'š', 'Ž', 'ž');
    $replace = array('A', 'a', 'S', 's', 'Ž', ž);
    return str_replace($search, $replace, $string);
}

$data = array(
                'word1'=>'Šššš',
                'word2'=>'Zzzzžzzž',
                'word3'=>'Āāāa'
                );

$data = array_map('splReplace',$data)   ;

Upvotes: 1

Gwenc37
Gwenc37

Reputation: 2048

with a simple foreach

<?php
$search  = array('Ā', 'ā', 'Š', 'š', 'Ž', 'ž');
$replace = array('A', 'a', 'S', 's', 'Ž', ž);
foreach($data as $key => $value){
    $data[$key] = str_replace($search, $replace, $data[$key]);
}
?>

Upvotes: 0

Awlad Liton
Awlad Liton

Reputation: 9351

try like this:

 $data = array(
    'word1'=>'Šššš',
    'word2'=>'Zzzzžzzž',
    'word3'=>'Āāāa'
);

$search  = array('Ā', 'ā', 'Š', 'š', 'Ž', 'ž');
$replace = array('A', 'a', 'S', 's', 'Ž', 'ž');
$data2 = array();
foreach($data as $k =>$v){
    $data2[$k] = str_replace($search, $replace, $data[$k]);
}
print_r($data2);

you can change the line inside foreach by this:

$data2[$k] = str_replace($search, $replace, $v);

demo

Upvotes: 0

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