ereg_replace value in a function

[viper]

I'm trying to find out how I could pass a ereg_replace value to a function to evaluate it of some sort, but it seems impossible.

ereg_replace('$cl([0-9])([^{])($cl|$ol)','<font} color="'.getcolor('\1').'">\2</font>',$out);

is there a way to do this?

Thanks

[Anon]

You have single quotes around the first parameter, so PHP won\'t replace $cl and $ol with the values they contain. Also consider using preg_replace since it\'s faster than ereg_replace. It would be a good idea to run preg_quote on your parameters too.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-replace.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-quote.php