从字符串中的数组键替换匹配的字符串

Question

My goal here is to, within a string, find a supposed array's keys and in that string, replace these keys with the matching keys from the array.

I have a small, useful function that finds all my strings between 2 delimiters (sandbox link: https://repl.it/repls/UnlinedDodgerblueAbstractions ):

function findBetween( $string, $start, $end )
{
    $start = preg_quote( $start, '/' );
    $end = preg_quote( $end, '/' );

    $format = '/(%s)(.*?)(%s)/';

    $pattern = sprintf( $format, $start, $end );

    preg_match_all( $pattern, $string, $matches );

    $number_of_matches = is_string( $matches[2] ) ? 1 : count( $matches[2] );

    if( $number_of_matches === 1 ) {
        return $matches[2];
    }

    if( $number_of_matches < 2 || empty( $matches ) ) {
        return False;
    }

    return $matches[2];
}

Example:

findBetween( 'This thing should output _$this_key$_ and also _$this_one$_ so that I can match it with an array!', '_$', '$_')

Should return an array with the values ['this_key', 'this_one'] as it does. Question is, how can I take these and replace them with an associative array's values?

Assume my array is this:

[
    'this_key' => 'love',
    'this_one' => 'more love'
];

My output should be this:

This thing should output love and also more love so that I can match it with an array!

How can I achieve this?

Answer 1

This is a problem that might be more readily solved with strtr than regex. We can use array_map to add the $start and $end values around the keys of $replacements , and then use strtr to do the substitution:

$str = 'This thing should output _$this_key$_ and also _$this_one$_ so that I can match it with an array!';
$replacements = [
    'this_key' => 'love',
    'this_one' => 'more love'
];
$start = '_$';
$end = '$_';
$replacements = array_combine(array_map(function ($v) use ($start, $end) { return "$start$v$end"; }, array_keys($replacements)), $replacements);
echo strtr($str, $replacements);

Output:

This thing should output love and also more love so that I can match it with an array!

Demo on 3v4l.org

If performance is an issue because you have to regenerate the $replacements array each time, this loop is much faster:

foreach ($replacements as $key => $value) {
    $new_reps["_\$$key\$_"] = $value;
}

Performance comparison demo on 3v4l.org

Answer 2

You may use preg_replace_callback :

<?php

$str = 'This thing should output _$this_key$_ and also _$this_one$_ so that I can match it with an array!';

$replacements = [
    'this_key' => 'love',
    'this_one' => 'more love'
];

$replaced = preg_replace_callback('/_\$([^$]+)\$_/', function($matches) use ($replacements) {
    return $replacements[$matches[1]];
}, $str);

print $replaced;

You have a demo here .

The regular expression, explained:

_              # Literal '_'
\$             # Literal '$' ($ needs to be scaped as it means end of line/string)
(              # Begin of first capturing group
    [^$]+      # One carcter that cannot be "$", repeated 1 or more times
)              # End of first capturing group
\$             # Literal '$'
_              # Literal '_'

For every match, the matching data ( $mathces ) is passed to the function.

On the first element of the array there is the first capturing group, that we use to do the replacement.

Answer 3

Hope this resolves your answer to the question !

$items['this_key'] = 'love';
$items['this_one'] = 'more love';

$string = 'This thing should output _$this_key$_ and also _$this_one$_ so that I can match it with an array!';

$this_key = $items['this_key'];
$this_one = $items['this_one'];
$string = str_replace('_$this_key$_',$this_key,$string);
$string = str_replace('_$this_one$_',$this_one,$string);

echo  $string;