RE: [PHP] Odd Strpos Behavior

> I'm getting a really weird return from Strpos. What I'm doing is this, and > anyone familiar with any of the table-runner programs for RPG's will know > what I'm getting at here, I have a fields, like [adjective], [noun], etc., > which I need to pull out and replace with values from included php files. > Ok, so I have a string with those fields in it, and I have a loop that > scans through the string for the first occurence of ]. On the first pass, > strpos returns the first instance of where ] shows up in the string. > Beautiful. I cut out the field, I create a filename, and it works just > fine. It'd be easier to use a regular expression for something like this. Something like this would work (from PHP Architect): $s = "I am going to be {a} years old on the {b}th of November, {c}."; $a = array( "a" => "one hundred", "b" => "seventeen", "c" => "two thousand two"); $z = preg_replace("/\{([a-z]+)\}/e","\$a['$1']",$s); echo $z; Output: I am going to be one hundred years old on the seventeenth of November, two thousand two. ---John W. Holmes... PHP Architect - A monthly magazine for PHP Professionals. Get your copy today. http://www.phparch.com/