ereg_replace & array index help

[jmfreema]

I have an array of the form $data[][] where the first index is row and the second is column. I would like to take a template (pull the contents into a variable) and then replace all instances of

r0c0, r0c1 ... r9c9 with the appropriate instance in the data array:
data[0][0], data[0][1], ..., data[9][9]

I tried this:

$template = ereg_replace("r([0-9])c([0-9])",$data["\1"]["\2"],$template);

it doesnt give any errors, but it also doesnt do what I wanted it to do. Instead of replacing rxcy with $data[x][y], it just replaces them with nothing.

Can anyone help?

[jmfreema]

I figured it out with preg_replace

preg_replace("/r([0-9]+)_c([0-9]+)/e","\$data['\1']['\2']",$content);

or something like that :p