Posted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney on 02/22/05 18:30

* OOzy Pal <oozypal@yahoo.com>:
> I am trying replace anything between '{!' and '!}' i.e {!A!} and {!B!}
> and {!ABC!} with XYZ. I tried the following but no help. Can anyone
> help?
>
> $this->template=str_replace("{!*!}","XYZ",$this->template);

str_replace() should be used with static strings; you're going to need a
regular expression function. Try:

$this->template = preg_replace('/\{!\(.*?)!\}/', '{!XYZ!}', $this->template);

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