PHP GREP - single to double quote in tags

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March 6th, 2009, 07:05 PM

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PHP GREP - single to double quote in tags

Hi,

I have a string like:

Code:

<p class='essay_caption'>This is Bob's test</p>

I want to change the string so all the ' become " inside the tag, but so it does not affect the ' in Bob's:

Code:

<p class="essay_caption">This is Bob's test</p>

I'm using PHP 5 and wonder if this can be done with ereg_replace.

Thanks for any help

PG

March 6th, 2009, 08:52 PM

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This will replace the ' in Bob's,

Code:

([a-zA-Z])'([a-zA-Z])

Now that I got you started, i'll leave you to do the reverse.

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March 7th, 2009, 01:54 AM

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So all you really want to do is replace all the apostrophes in HTML tags with quotes?

PHP Code:


		
			
 $text = "<p class='essay_caption'>This is Bob's test</p>";



echo preg_replace('/<([^<>]+)>/e', '"<" . str_replace("\\\\\'", \'"\', "$1") . ">"', $text);

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March 7th, 2009, 10:00 AM

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requinix - thank you!

That is exactly what I needed.

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