PHP's str_replace ?

[Grzegorz Staniak]

On 10.09.2008, David Thole <dthole at gmail.com> wroted:

>> >> new_str = re.sub('[aeiou]', '-', str)
>> > Wow - this is neat. Thanks
>>
>> But probably slower and definitely harder to understand. For simple
>> problems the str methods are usually faster than a regular expression.
>
> It's true that regular expressions are generally slower, but I
> disagree that it's hard to understand.  When dealing with text, I
> think it's an absolute must that programmers know about regular
> expressions.  I think this here is an example where even str_replace
> in Python wouldn't have worked well.

What about mystring.translate(transtable)?

GS
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