don't replace some occurences using str_replace

Question

i have a string like this "{text}...{text}...{text}...text..." i need to replace the "text" value in the string but only the ones that are not in currly or square brackets

Answer 1

You should then use regular expressions :

/(?<!({|\[))text(?!(}|\]]))/

You can use this with preg_replace() :

preg_replace("/(?<!({|\[))text(?!(}|\]]))/", $replace, $string);