php - RegEx for capturing and replacing a string with quotes

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I want tostr_replace in a function.

str_replace(array('(', ')', array('"', '\'')), array('\(', '\)', '["|\']'), 'hello("test")');

hello\(["|']test["|']\)

This would work, but not very useful:

str_replace(array('"', '\''), '["|\']', str_replace(array('(', ')'), array('\(', '\)'), 'hello("test")'));

How do I solve this problem?

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Here, we might want to capturehello andtest, then assemble what we like to have using apreg_replace:

$re = '/(.*)\("(.+)"\)/m';
$str = 'hello("test")';
$subst = "$1\([\"|']$2[\"|'\"]\)";

$result = preg_replace($re, $subst, $str);

echo $result;

hello\(["|']test["|'"]\)

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