- strstr: documentation ( source)
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- str_replace: documentation ( source)
<?php
$post = array(
'$a' => "Ana",
'$b' => "George"
);
$string = '$a has (2 * 10 + 5) Euro and (10 + 2) cents from $b';
$regex = '#\((([^()]+|(?R))*)\)#';
if (preg_match_all($regex, $string ,$matches)) {
$eqs = $matches[1];
foreach($eqs as $frm) {
$frm_eval = eval("return $frm;");
$string = str_replace('(' . $frm . ')', $frm_eval, $string);
}
echo strstr($string, $post);
} else {
//no parenthesis
echo $string;
}