note 8574 added to preg_replace

I felt it necessary to point out that Example 1 above does not work correctly. The first line should be: $patterns = array ("/(19|20)(\d{2})-(\d{1,2})-(\d{1,2})/", "/^\s*{(\w+)}\s*=/"); and the line after that should be: $replace = array ("\\3/\\4/\\1\\2", "$\\1 ="); THIS will produce the desired results: $startDate = 5/27/1999 http://www.php.net/manual/function.preg-replace.php