Check if letter exist in a string and replace all those letters with specific letters php

Question

Let's say i have a string like this: "Sóc Trăng".

What i want to do is check whether ó and ă exist in the string "Sóc Trăng". If those two letters exist in the string, I want to replace ó with o and ă with a.

How can i do so in php?

http://php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match.php - some useful reading. — Yaron, Dec 21 '16 at 07:04

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 21 '16 at 07:06

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Simply use str_replace for it

$str = "Sóc Trăng";
echo str_replace( array('ó', 'ă'), array('o', 'a'), $str);

output

answered Dec 21 '16 at 07:06

Muhammad Hassaan

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This should be the accepted answer. – Marcel Dec 21 '16 at 07:14
exactly what i need. thank you. :) – CloudSeph Dec 21 '16 at 07:22

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 21 '16 at 07:07

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You can do something like this

$str = "Sóc Trăng";
str_replace("ó","o",$str);
str_replace("ă","a",$str);

Thats it.

answered Dec 21 '16 at 07:07

Check if letter exist in a string and replace all those letters with specific letters php

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