preg_replace and arrays

[Anon]

Trying to use some data from a preg_replace as an array index.

Problem is, it isn't working.

Here's what I got so far...

$this->localestring is an array something like this:

$this->localestring['msg'] = "Welcome!"
$this->localestring['ms2'] = "Goodbye"

Now, using this code I'm trying to replace "{STRING: msg}" with "Welcome!", "{STRING: ms2}" with "Goodbye", and so on:

$this->text = preg_replace("/{\STRING: (.*)}/", $this->locale_string['$1'], $this->text);

Not working, though.

Any thoughts? Thank you,
-Kevin

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Plenty thoughts, starting with:

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