php mb ereg,PHP: mb_ereg_replace - Manual

To selectively uppercase parts of a string via mb_eregi_replace

$str = mb_eregi_replace('\b([0-9]{1,4}[a-z]{1,2})\b', "strtoupper

('\\1')", $str, 'e');

Full example, how to fix an address manually typed, uppercasing the first letter of a words and keeping uppercase roman numerals and the letters A,B,C after the house number):

function ucAddress($str) {

// first lowercase all and use the default ucwords

$str = ucwords(strtolower($str));

// let's fix the default ucwords...

// uppercase letters after house number (was lowercased by the strtolower above)

$str = mb_eregi_replace('\b([0-9]{1,4}[a-z]{1,2})\b', "strtoupper

('\\1')", $str, 'e');

// the same for roman numerals

$str = mb_eregi_replace('\bM{0,4}(CM|CD|D?C{0,3})(XC|XL|L?X{0,3})(IX|IV|V?I{0,3})\b', "strtoupper('\\0')", $str, 'e');

return $str;

}

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