[ILUG] regexp / php question

[Kae Verens]

John P. Looney wrote:
>  This is a trick7y one, that slightly hurts my head. I'm wondering is
> there an easy way that I don't know of, to solve this:
> 
>  I have a text file, with zero or more patterns like:
> 
>  send an email to 'Looney' <email at domain.com> and tell him about it.
> 
>  I'd like to replace 'Looney' with <a href="thing?Looney"> and
> email at domain.com with a href="mailto:email at domain.com". It's a simple
> regexp, but it has to be done many times.
> 
>  Do I have to loop over all the text file, line by line, or is there
> something that'll do that for m e?

$f=file('thefile.txt');
foreach($f as $ln){
	$ln=str_replace(
		array("'Looney'",'email at domain.com'),
		array('<a href="thing?Looney">','a href="mailto:email at domain.com"');
}