note 21382 deleted from function.preg-replace by sniper

Note Submitter: cluebie ---- Printing arrays has been tried a few times above but I haven't been able to use the solutions provided. Here is what worked for me: ------ $description["useless"] = "moocow"; $description["boring"] = "fubar"; $description["hard"] = "easy now!"; $text = "Arrays in preg are [desc:hard] "; print preg_replace("/\[desc:([ \w]+)\]/e","\$description['\\1']",$text); ------ This will print "Arrays in preg are easy now! " The preg finds [desc:hard] and uses "hard" as the index into the array called $description. Note the /e in the pattern, the function is enclosed in double quotes, and $description is escaped with \.