note 83142 deleted from function.preg-replace by felipe

Note Submitter: chris at online dash buddies dot com ---- Here's a problem I'm having with preg_replace. I'm looking up a value associated with a string and replacing it with the associated id for better performance when pushed to production. When I deal with escapable or special characters, I run into the problem of being able to detect them (preg_match_all) but I can't replace them!!!!!!!! [exec] line: <span><?php echo __('Password') ?> <?php echo __('Wel\"come,') ?></span> [exec] replace: Array [exec] ( [exec] [0] => 2 [exec] [1] => 8 [exec] ) [exec] pattern: Array [exec] ( [exec] [0] => /Password/ [exec] [1] => /Wel\"come,/ [exec] ) [exec] finished line:: <span><?php echo __('2') ?> <?php echo __('Wel\"come,') ?></span> [exec] [exec] Replacing 2 keys in.................. Not sure why it's doing this. Here's the code. <?php private function replaceLine($linenum, $line) { //Local or make member variables???? $regs = NULL; $count = preg_match_all($this->_pattern, $line, $regs); $replacements = Array(); $patterns = Array(); if ($count) { foreach ($regs[1] as $val) { $replacements[] = array_search($val, $this->_xliff_data); $patterns[] = "/$val/"; } fwrite($this->_output_file, preg_replace($patterns, $replacements, $line)); echo "Replacing $count keys in $this->_filename -- Line:".($linenum+1)."\n"; } else { fwrite($this->_output_file, $line); } } ?>