mb_ereg_replace_callback
Perform a regular expresssion seach and replace with multibyte support using a callback
Description
string mb_ereg_replace_callback
( string $pattern
, callable $callback
, string $string
[, string $option
= "msr"
] )
The behavior of this function is almost identical to mb_ereg_replace,
except for the fact that instead of
replacement
parameter, one should specify a
callback
.
Parameters
-
pattern
-
The regular expression pattern.
Multibyte characters may be used in pattern
.
-
callback
-
A callback that will be called and passed an array of matched elements
in the subject
string. The callback should
return the replacement string.
You'll often need the callback
function
for a mb_ereg_replace_callback in just one place.
In this case you can use an
anonymous function to
declare the callback within the call to
mb_ereg_replace_callback. By doing it this way
you have all information for the call in one place and do not
clutter the function namespace with a callback function's name
not used anywhere else.
-
string
-
The string being checked.
-
option
-
Matching condition can be set by option
parameter. If i is specified for this
parameter, the case will be ignored. If x is
specified, white space will be ignored. If m
is specified, match will be executed in multiline mode and line
break will be included in '.'. If p is
specified, match will be executed in POSIX mode, line break
will be considered as normal character. Note that e
cannot be used for mb_ereg_replace_callback.
Return Values
The resultant string on success, or FALSE
on error.
Notes
Note:
The internal encoding or the
character encoding specified by mb_regex_encoding
will be used as the character encoding for this function.
Examples
Example #1 mb_ereg_replace_callback example
<?php
// this text was used in 2002
// we want to get this up to date for 2003
$text = "April fools day is 04/01/2002\n";
$text.= "Last christmas was 12/24/2001\n";
// the callback function
function next_year($matches)
{
// as usual: $matches[0] is the complete match
// $matches[1] the match for the first subpattern
// enclosed in '(...)' and so on
return $matches[1].($matches[2]+1);
}
echo mb_ereg_replace_callback(
"(\d{2}/\d{2}/)(\d{4})",
"next_year",
$text);
?>
The above example will output:
April fools day is 04/01/2003
Last christmas was 12/24/2002
Example #2 mb_ereg_replace_callback using anonymous function
supported in PHP 5.3.0 or later
<?php
// this text was used in 2002
// we want to get this up to date for 2003
$text = "April fools day is 04/01/2002\n";
$text.= "Last christmas was 12/24/2001\n";
echo mb_ereg_replace_callback(
"(\d{2}/\d{2}/)(\d{4})",
function ($matches) {
return $matches[1].($matches[2]+1);
},
$text);
?>