2008/2/27 Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx>:> On 27/02/2008, Zoltán Németh <znemeth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:> >> > sorry that's messed up a bit, as I typed it right here in my mailer ;)> >> > preg_replace('/\b([^\s]+)a\b.*/U', '$1A', 'whatever i want that hasa a> > on the end');> >> > greets> >> > Zoltán Németh> >>> Thank you very much, Zoltan. Is there a known UTF-8 limitation?> Because it works fine for me in English letters (well, the opposite of> what I needed but I was able to work with it as which polar I start> with was arbitrary), but not in Hebrew letters. For instance, this> works as expected:>> $test="aabacada aa a f";> $test=preg_replace('/\b([^\s]+)a\b.*/U', '$1A', $test);> print $test; // PRINTS aabacadA aA a f>> However, this does not:>> $test="אאבאגאדא אא א ";> $test=preg_replace('/\b([^\s]+)ע\b.*/U', '$1א', $test);> print $test; // PRINTS אאבאגאדא אא א>> Am I misunderstanding something, or is there a UTF-8 problem, or> something else? Thank you for your assistance, it is much appreciated> and I'm learning what I can.>>>> Dotan Cohen>> http://what-is-what.com> http://gibberish.co.il> א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת>> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?>
The "a" character (97) is different from the "א" character (1488).
$a = html_entity_decode('א');$test=preg_replace('/\b([^\s]+)' . $a . '\b.*/U', '$1A', $test);
Will this work?-- -Casey
