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  <refentry id="function.eregi-replace">
   <refnamediv>
    <refname>eregi_replace</refname>
    <refpurpose>Replace regular expression case insensitive</refpurpose>
   </refnamediv>
   <refsect1>
    <title>Description</title>
    <methodsynopsis>
     <type>string</type><methodname>eregi_replace</methodname>
     <methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>pattern</parameter></methodparam>
     <methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>replacement</parameter></methodparam>
     <methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>string</parameter></methodparam>
    </methodsynopsis>
    <para>
     This function is identical to <function>ereg_replace</function>
     except that this ignores case distinction when matching
     alphabetic characters.
    </para>
    <para>
     <example>
      <title>Highlight search results</title>
      <programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
<?php
$pattern = '(>[^<]*)('. quotemeta($_GET['search']) .')';
$replacement = '\\1<span class="search">\\2</span>';
$body = eregi_replace($pattern, $replacement, $body);
?>
]]>
      </programlisting>
     </example>
    </para>
    <para>
     See also <function>ereg</function>, <function>eregi</function>,
     and <function>ereg_replace</function>.
    </para>
   </refsect1>
  </refentry>
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