PHP - Translating Characters with strtr()

Introduction

You can replace certain characters in a string with certain other characters.

Demo

<?php
$myString = "Here's a little string";

// Displays "Here-s+a+little+string"
echo strtr( $myString, "'", "+-" ) . " \n ";
?>//from w w  w.j a v a  2s . c  om

strtr()  is especially useful if you need to translate a string from one character set to another.

Result

Related Topic

• String Functions
• String word Count
• String substring
• String Searching
• Searching Strings with strstr()
• Locating Text with strpos() and strrpos()
• Finding the Number of Occurrences with substr_count()
• Searching for a Set of Characters with strpbrk()
• String Replacing
• Replacing All Occurrences using str_replace()
• Replacing a Portion of a String with substr_replace()
• Justifying Text
• String Uppercase and Lowercase
• String case sensitive search
• Trimming Strings with trim(), ltrim(), and rtrim()
• Padding Strings with str_pad()
• Wrapping Lines of Text with wordwrap()
• Write program to emulate the function call str_pad($myString, $desiredLength)

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