On Tuesday 06 January 2004 12:35, Aaron Axelsen wrote:

> I am fighting replacing items in the following hunk of code.  This code is
> pulled from a database, and then I want to replace items like <<name>> with
> the contents of a variable $name.
>
> I have tried code like:
> preg_replace("/\<\<\?.*?\>\>/",$name,$paypal);

The angle brackets have no special meaning so there's no need to escape them. 
Something like:

  preg_replace('/(<<.*>>)/U', $name, $paypal);

should work.

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