Plugin update: Find and Replace

Lodewijk

Posted: 13 December 2005 04:26 AM

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My first plugin for EE has had an update. Current version is 1.1. Download the plugin from my site. Usage examples can be found there, too.

ETA: Current version is 1.3. Scroll down for details.

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Luke Stevens

Posted: 13 December 2005 04:54 AM

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This is such a handy plugin, thanks for releasing it. What has changed in 1.1?

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Lodewijk

Posted: 13 December 2005 05:03 AM

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Luke S. - 13 December 2005 04:54 AM
What has changed in 1.1?

First of all, you can now search for spaces or replace strings with spaces, by using find=“SPACE” or replace=“SPACE”.

Secondly, the plugin now supports multiple replacements, just like the php str_replace function. Example:

{exp:replace find="a|e|i|o|u" replace="X" multiple="yes"}
  text you want processed
{/exp:replace} 

Result: tXxt yXX wXnt prXcXssXd

Or take this one step further:

{exp:replace find="text|you|want" replace="words|we|have" multiple="yes"}
  text you want processed
{/exp:replace} 

Result: words we have processed

And to finish things off, if you’re running PHP 5 or higher, then you can use the parameter casesensitive=“no” to ignore case.

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Lodewijk

Posted: 13 December 2005 12:20 PM

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Thanks to some helpful input from Paul, the casesensitive=“no” parameter is now available for PHP 4 and higher, thus pushing the version number to 1.2. Go get it! (also available at plugins.pmachine.com)

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Lodewijk

Posted: 24 November 2006 08:43 AM

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I upgraded this plugin to version 1.3:

- Fixed a bug concerning replacing ampersands
- Use the string QUOTE for finding/replacing double quotes ("), useful for adding double quotes as a parameter value
- Added a new feature: regular expression find & replace

Examples for RegEx:

{exp:replace find="\w+" replace="*" regex="yes"}
text you want processed
{/exp:replace}

Result: * * * * 

Regular Expression find and replace with backreference:

{exp:replace find="<a[^>]*href=QUOTE(.+)QUOTE[^>]*>(.*)<\/a>" replace="$2 ($1)" regex="yes"}
<a href="http://www.foo.com/">text</a> you want <a href="http://www.bar.com/">processed</a>
{/exp:replace}

Result: text (http://www.foo.com/) you want processed (http://www.bar.com/) 

Want categories listed grammatically correct? This example will replace the last comma with ” and”:

{exp:replace find=", ([^,]+)$" replace="&nbsp;and $1" regex="yes"}{categories backspace="1"}
<a href="{path=/}" title="View all posts in {category_name}">{category_name}</a>, 
{/categories}{/exp:replace}. 

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