Bug #12477 Updated: preg_replace evaluates dollar signs as variables (eg $1,000 becomes ,000)

ID: 12477 User updated by: Grant.Walters@walters.co.nz Reported By: Grant.Walters@walters.co.nz Status: Closed Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Operating System: Linux and SCO PHP Version: 4.0.6 New Comment: I was trying to have to walk the array twice. The following works: $pagevars = str_replace("$","\\\$",$pagevars); $page = preg_replace($template,$pagevars,$page); The reason for using preg_replace is that it does a recursive? replace. My pagevars array actually has about 40 variables and the intention is to allow website designers to define their own additional variables that are added to the template string. Thanks for your help. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-08-06 17:29:56] andrei@php.net To QA people (Andy): please don't be hasty. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-08-06 17:26:23] andy@php.net reopened and reclassified as a feature request. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-08-06 17:26:15] andrei@php.net If you don't want to use \n or $n substitution, then maybe you are better off using str_replace()? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-08-06 17:24:10] Grant.Walters@walters.co.nz Is it possible to ask that the this be included as a new feature? A switch to tell the PCRE engine? to ignore variable substitution? It would make things a lot easier, I think. Thanks ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-08-06 12:49:00] andrei@php.net That's right, you need to escape $ in your replacement strings. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/?id=12477 Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=12477&edit=1