I'm trying to insert text to string at certain positions (before letter "b" in this case), but for some reason the code I have only insert text (" test ")at the last position/occurance.
<?php
$str = "aabaaaaabaaaaab";
$needle = "b";
$teststr = " test ";
$lastPos = 0;
$positions = array();
while (($lastPos = strpos($str, $needle, $lastPos))!== false) {
$positions[] = $lastPos;
$lastPos = $lastPos + strlen($needle);
}
for ($i=0;$i<count($positions);$i++) {
$newstring = substr_replace($str,$teststr,$positions[$i],0);
}
echo $newstring;
?>`
this produces the following output: aabaaaaabaaaaa test b when the desired one whould be: aa test aaaaa test aaaaa test b
You use $str
as input for substring_replace
, but you don't modify $str
anywhere. Obviously only the last replacement will show. You can, for example, use $newstring
as input for substring_replace
, but then you positions are no longer correct. This can be avoided by making the replacements from right to left:
//snip
$newstring = $str;
for ($i = count($positions) - 1; $i >= 0; $i--) {
$newstring = substr_replace($newstring, $teststr, $positions[$i], 0);
}
echo $newstring;
Would regular expressions work for you?
<?php
$str = "aabaaaaabaaaaab";
echo preg_replace('~b~', ' test b', $str);
$str = "aabaaaaabaaaaab";
$needle = "b";
$teststr = " test ";
$lastPos = 0;
$positions = explode($needle, $str);
foreach($positions as $k=>$v) {
$positions[$k]=$v.$teststr.$needle;
}
$positions=implode($positions);
echo $positions;
Try This
Following should work
$str = "aabaaaaabaaaaab";
$needle = "b";
$teststr = " test ";
for ($i=0;$i<strlen($str);$i++) {
if($str[$i]==$needle ){
echo $teststr.$str[$i];
}else{
echo $str[$i];
}
}
echo $newstring;
**Output**
aa test baaaaa test baaaaa test b