preg_replace

[devjan]

I am trying to use the preg_replace for following statement and it's not working correctly
here, $arrcontents is array of reserved words and in $buffer, file needs to read and high light all that reserved words
I want to replace all reserved words which starts from . or = or whitespace or { or { like that...

Help me please!!

for ($i=0;$i<sizeof($arrcontents);$i++){

$buffer = preg_replace("/\.|(|[|=|{|}|]|) . trim($arrcontents[$i])/" , "<b><font color='#0000ff'>" .  trim($arrcontents[$i]) . "'</b></font>", $buffer);;

echo "BUFFER: $buffer";
exit;

}

Dev

[matt_4013]

$buffer = preg_replace("/.|(|[|=|{|}|]|)" . trim($arrcontents[$i])."/" , "<b><font color='#0000ff'>" . trim($arrcontents[$i]) . "'</b></font>");

Give that a go. You had your trim function inside the quotation marks, which was probably causing a problem.