[ale] php weirdness

[James Sumners]

The following does exactly what you want:
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<?php
$foo = "abc12345";
$foo2 = substr_replace($foo, '-', 0, 3);
$foo3 = str_replace(substr($foo, 0, 3), '-', $foo);
print("foo = ".$foo."\n");
print("foo2 = ".$foo2."\n");
print("foo3 = ".$foo3."\n");
?>
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This is the output from my installation of PHP:
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[mythtv at mythtv tmp]$ php -v && php test.php
PHP 5.2.7 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.6.3 (cli) (built: Dec  6 2008 19:19:58)
Copyright (c) 1997-2008 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2008 Zend Technologies
foo = abc123456
foo2 = -123456
foo3 = -123456
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We have done nothing different according to what you have posted. So
there must be something else modifying your string.

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why does
>
> echo str_replace(substr($row['foo'],0,3), '-', $row['foo']);
>
> print out    abc-12345
>
> when $row['foo'] contains abc12345? From what str_replace is SUPPOSED
> to do it should print -12345 instead??
>
> php5.



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