Is there a way to alter the output of a post using Regular Expressions?

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Last updated by Minesh 3 years, 3 months ago.

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March 9, 2022 at 3:06 am #2311759

martinR-8

Tell us what you are trying to do?
Changing the Output of a post. I have a Regex pattern that changes the spelling of a word to an idiom.
It's an old Joomla-Site, the plugin who does is is not compatible with PHP8. I want to use WordPress in future.
Is there any documentation that you are following?
Is there any?
Is there a similar example that we can see?
Example expressions:
~ie~ ==> e
~ia~ ==> ja
~io~ ==> jo
~ei~ ==> ai

March 9, 2022 at 6:36 am #2311873

Minesh

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Hello. Thank you for contacting the Toolset support.

There is no such native feature to implement regular expression on your content, you will have to write your own custom shortcode that does the replacement work as per your requirement and return your desired content.

Here is the guide about how you can write custom shortcode:
- https://toolset.com/documentation/programmer-reference/adding-custom-code/how-to-create-a-custom-shortcode/