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yivi
yivi

Reputation: 47648

replace escaped characters with characters surrounded by quotes

I'm trying to search-replace through a string that may contain any number of characters preceded by a backslash, and produce the same string but with backslash removed, and those characters surrounded by single quotes.

E.g.: ab c\d\e fg \h ij

Should produce ab c'de' fg 'h' ij

Is it possible to do this with a single preg_replace?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 36

Answers (1)

Casimir et Hippolyte
Casimir et Hippolyte

Reputation: 89639

You can't do it with preg_replace (because you have to deal with an unknow number of repetitions), you must use preg_replace_callback to find all the sequence. Then the callback function removes the backslashes and returns the result between quotes:

$str='ab c\d\e fg \h ij';

echo preg_replace_callback('~(?:\\\.)+~', function ($m) {
    return "'". str_replace('\\', '', $m[0]) . "'";
}, $str);

Upvotes: 1

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