Question

I need an expression for PHP preg_replace so just replace “[” and “]” with “(” and “)” only for none PHP arrays.
Please read the question and see the sample carefully…

Thank you…

Sample:

// input
$foo[];
bar["name"];

// output
$foo[];
bar("name");

Answer 1

I don’t know what “only for none PHP arrays” means, but if you’re just replacing individual characters, why use a preg? str_replace() should work just fine.

[ghoti@pc ~]$ cat doit
#!/usr/local/bin/php
<?php

$text="a[b]c\n";

$in = array( "[", "]" );
$out = array( "(", ")" );

print str_replace($in, $out, $text);

[ghoti@pc ~]$ ./doit
a(b)c
[ghoti@pc ~]$