preg_replace, str_replace

[amos88]

hi!

I already posted this question some time ago and thought to get a sufficient answer - but after checking a second time I had to realize that it did not work out...

here is the problem:

I have got 3 arrays:

$subject = array(1,1,5,2,4,2,1,9,10,1)
$pattern = array(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10)
$replace = array(5,5,5,4,4,2,5,1,2,2)

what I do is:

str_replace ($pattern, $replace, $subject)

my problem is, that str_replace can not deal with numbers - so I turned to preg_replace which should do it - but it gives me something like "delimiter must not be alphanumeric or backslash) -> does this mean I have to get rid of the "," commas ??
any hint appreciated!

thanks a lot

cheers

amos

[ltomas]

hi amos,

you can try array_splice.
since str_replace cant handle arrays.

HTH,
---lem

[amos88]

hi lem!

thanks for the message!

lets come to the core problem - the str_replace function works for arrays in my case but (I have a second example with larger numbers that works fine) -> the problem I described here is the following - whenever it comes to number smaller than 10 every eg "56" is handled as "5" and "6" and not as "56".

the array_splice method gave me a "0" result - ie no matches ...

any idea ?

cheers

amos