PYTHON strtr

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Python replacement for PHP's strtr [ edit | history ]
Python 2.x: 
import string
result = myStr.translate(string.maketrans(from, to))


Python 3.x: 
result = myStr.translate(str.maketrans(from, to))

result = myStr.translate(str.maketrans(replace_dict))


Caveat: these solutions only cover the first use case of strtr(): plain character substitution. It does not implement the second case: array tokens.

PHP strtr

PHP original manual for strtr [ show | php.net ]

strtr

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

strtr — Translate certain characters

Description

string strtr ( string $str , string $from , string $to )
string strtr ( string $str , array $replace_pairs )

This function returns a copy of str , translating all occurrences of each character in from to the corresponding character in to .

If from and to are different lengths, the extra characters in the longer of the two are ignored.

Parameters

str

The string being translated.

from

The string being translated to to .

to

The string replacing from .

replace_pairs

The replace_pairs parameter may be used as a substitute for to and from in which case it's an array in the form array('from' => 'to', ...).

Return Values

This function returns a copy of str , translating all occurrences of each character in from to the corresponding character in to .

Changelog

Version Description
4.0.0 The optional to and from parameters were added.

Examples

Example #1 strtr() example

<?php
$addr = strtr($addr, "äåö", "aao");
?>

strtr() may be called with only two arguments. If called with two arguments it behaves in a new way: from then has to be an array that contains string -> string pairs that will be replaced in the source string. strtr() will always look for the longest possible match first and will *NOT* try to replace stuff that it has already worked on.

Example #2 strtr() example with two arguments

<?php
$trans = array("hello" => "hi", "hi" => "hello");
echo strtr("hi all, I said hello", $trans);
?>

The above example will output:

hello all, I said hi

See Also

String Functions
PHP Manual