How to replace words with special symbol (.) in string?

Question

I have sample string:

$string = "муқ. - муқоиса муқ. муқ.шавад муқ томуқ.";

I try with this my code:

$result = preg_replace("/\b(муқ\.?)\b/u", 'repl', $string);
echo "$result";

Result: repl. - муқоиса repl. replшавад repl томуқ.

Needed result: repl - муқоиса repl муқ.шавад муқ томуқ.

Here I can't replace word with "." ended symbol!

`\b` doesn't work good with unicode characters.. You can try [a proposed workaround here](https://stackoverflow.com/a/45985701/7393478) — Kaddath, May 02 '18 at 07:41

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered May 02 '18 at 07:41

4

Try this:

$result = preg_replace("/\bмуқ\.\B/u", "repl", $string);

answered May 02 '18 at 07:41

user70960

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 02 '18 at 07:42

1

Use a negative lookahead:

$result = preg_replace("/\bмуқ\.(?!\w)/u", 'repl', $string);

answered May 02 '18 at 07:42

Toto

How I can use instead `муқ` array words in pattern? I have many words ended with '.' – Andreas Hunter May 02 '18 at 07:52
3

preg_replace("/\b(one|two|three)\.(?!\w)/u", "replace", $string) – user70960 May 02 '18 at 08:05

score -1 · Answer 3 · edited May 03 '18 at 12:45

-1

You can use the str_replace function.

str_replace(".", "your word", "your string");

edited May 03 '18 at 12:45

user70960

answered May 02 '18 at 07:39

Gabrielle-M

3 Answers3