Posted by Jason Wong on 01/06/05 10:56

On Thursday 06 January 2005 14:24, Liam Gibbs wrote:

Please fix your mail client so that in word wraps properly!

> Here's what I need. I have a string such as this:
>
> "Yadda yadda yadda yadda '32'(l) yadda yadda yadda '2'(l) yadda '419'(l)."
> (#2)
>
> I need to find the strings like '32'(l), '2'(l), and '419'(l), including
> the single quotes. Basically a '[0-9]*'(l). This is #1.
>
> Take that string, look up a record in an SQL table based on the number in
> the single quotes. Take a field in the record (#3) and replace #1 with it.
> So basically, we have:
>
> "Yadda yadda yadda yadda supplanted-string yadda yadda yadda
> supplanted-string yadda supplanted-string." (#2)

It seems preg_replace_callback() would be ideal for this job.

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