I am experimenting a problem with | (or) and the regex in php.
Here is what I would like to do, for example I have those 3 sentences :
"apple is good to eat"
"an apple a day keeps the doctor away"
"i like to eat apple"
And lets say that i would like to change the word apple by orange, so here is my code :
$oldWord="apple";
$newWord="orange";
$text = preg_replace('#^' . $oldWord . ' #', $newWord, $text);
$text = preg_replace('# ' . $oldWord . ' #', $newWord, $text);
$text = preg_replace('# ' . $oldWord . '$#', $newWord, $text);
Of course it works but i haven't found the right combinaison to do that with only one line of code with the key word | (or).
Do you guys have any suggestion please ? thanks