Reg Exp gurus needed!

[Anon]

Hi,

take a look at the (simplified) code:

$Text = "foobar #r# and so on...";

$align = array ("r" => "ALIGN=right", "l" => "ALIGN='left'");

$patterns= array("/#(.+)#/");
$replace= array("$align[\1]");

$Text = preg_replace($patterns,$replace, $Text);

You probably can guess my intention:
I want to replace the pattern '#key#' with the appropriate value of the array 'align', depending on the key, that is to be found between those two '#'. That means, the result should look like this:

$Text = "foobar ALIGN=right and so on...";

I have tried quite everything with the '/e' modifier, which should have helped as I thought...in vain.

Yes, the example doesn't make much sense...

Thanks a lot for any advice!

[Anon]

What is perfect for you to do this is strtr..

It works like this:

$stuff['#r#'] = "ALIGN=right";
$stuff['#l#'] = "ALIGN=left";

$string = "foobar #r# and so on...";

$string = strtr($stuff, $string);

This will do the trick for ya...

Andreas