On Friday 03 May 2002 12:51, Jason Soza wrote:
>  Hoping someone can help me here. I'm working with someone else's code and
>  I'm not familiar with ereg_replace(), can someone provide me an alternative
>  to the following?
> 
>  ereg_replace("[^a-z0-9._]", "",
>  ereg_replace (" ", "_",
>  ereg_replace("%20", "_",
>  strtolower($original_name))));
> 
>  Basically, I want to enter $original_name and have it come out $new_name,
>  converting all spaces to underscores, upper to lowercase, and whatever that
>  first line does. :)
> 
>  I've read through the manual and what I got was that preg_replace() is
>  probably faster... Anyhow, I looked up preg_replace() and as a newbie to
>  PHP, the given examples look like a language all their own.

What you're doing is not particularly complicated and can be done using 
str_replace().

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