If your goal is to eventually convert Hebrew chars to something else, you could just use str_replace or stri_replace and have each Hebrew char as an array element, replaced by another array element as a match.
Example in English:
str_replace(array('a','b','c'),array('t','u','v'),$string);
This will replace all instances of a,b and c with t, u, and v respectively. This removes the regex resource.
-----Original Message-----
From: Nitsan Bin-Nun [mailto:nitsanbn@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 10:33 AM
To: php php
Subject: How to check if $string contains Hebrew characters?
Hi,
I have a $string and i want to know if it contains Hebrew characters in it,
I wrote the following:
> function containHebrewChars ($string)
> {
> $chars = "אבגדהוזחטיכלמנסעפצקרשת"; // ABC of hebrew chars (AlefBet)
> $chars =
> preg_replace("/([\xE0-\xFA])/e","chr(215).chr(ord(\${1})-80)",$chars); //
> convert it to UTF8
> if (preg_match("/[".$chars."]/", $string)) return true;
> return false;
> }
>
I'm pretty sure there is a better way to do this (regex is overkill), any
ideas?
Regards,
Nitsan
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