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<?php $string = '{Company X Inc.|CVR-1-81287283} was recently acquired by {Company Z Inc.|CVR-1-34251568}'; var_export( preg_replace('~\{([^|]+)\|([^}]+)}~', '<a href="companies/$2">$1</a>', $string) );
Output for 7.3.0 - 7.3.33, 7.4.0 - 7.4.33, 8.0.0 - 8.0.30, 8.1.0 - 8.1.33, 8.2.0 - 8.2.29, 8.3.0 - 8.3.25, 8.4.1 - 8.4.12
'<a href="companies/CVR-1-81287283">Company X Inc.</a> was recently acquired by <a href="companies/CVR-1-34251568">Company Z Inc.</a>'
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142.45 ms | 407 KiB | 5 Q