note 38502 deleted from function.preg-replace by tularis

Note Submitter: daniil at nycfoto dot com ---- I've had this problem where I had to take a message from the database and replace special strings into some useful data. Since others might want to do the same, here is an example: <?php // This is taken from somewhere and written in PHP $str = 'Hello, [name] thank you for bla & bla, Sincerely, [team_name]'; // Those are the variables to be replaced with inside [] $name = 'Mike'; $team_name = 'Company XYZ'; $msg = preg_replace("/\[(\S+)\]/e", "\$\\1", $str); print $msg; ?> The above script will produce the desired output replacing variables inside brackets with values in the php script.