Performs a deep string replace operation to ensure the values in $search are no longer present.

Repeats the replacement operation until it no longer replaces anything so as to remove "nested" values e.g. $subject = ‘%0%0%0DDD’, $search =’%0D’, $result =” rather than the ‘%0%0DD’ that str_replace would return

$search string|array Required

The value being searched for, otherwise known as the needle.
An array may be used to designate multiple needles.

$subject string Required

The string being searched and replaced on, otherwise known as the haystack.

string The string with the replaced values.

File: wp-includes/formatting.php. View all references

function _deep_replace( $search, $subject ) {
	$subject = (string) $subject;

	$count = 1;
	while ( $count ) {
		$subject = str_replace( $search, '', $subject, $count );
	}

	return $subject;
}