How to replace the characters in fixed positions in PHP?

Question

I want to replace with the 4~8 characters of a string with *,how to do it?

HelloWorld

=>

Hell****ld

Answer 1

$str="HelloWorld";
print preg_replace("/^(....)....(.*)/","\\1****\\2",$str);

Answer 2

<?php
$e=str_split("HelloWorld");
$e[3]="*";
$e[4]="*";
$e[5]="*";
echo implode($e);
?>

User can change only the characters that he need.

Answer 3

use

substr_replace()

like

substr_replace($string, '****', 4 , 4);

read more :

http://php.net/manual/en/function.substr-replace.php

Answer 4

$string = 'HelloWorld';

for ($i = 4; $i <= 8; ++$i) {
    $string[$i] = '*';
}

But there is many, many more ways to do that.

Answer 5

<?php
$var="HelloWorld";
$pattern="/oWor/";
$replace="****";
echo preg_replace($pattern,$replace,$var);
?>

Answer 6

You'll need to use substr_replace().

$str = substr_replace("HelloWorld","****",3,-2);