php - regular expression text merge

Is this possible in reg-ex?

subject='fox';
adjective='quick brown';
verb='jumps';
text='The <> <> <> over the lazy dog.'

reg-ex would return:

'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.'

Answer

You don't even need regular expressions to do that. I assume PHP has a string.Replace function of some sort, right? So wouldn't you just be doing (in C#, sorry):

text = "The <> <> <> over the lazy dog.";

text = text.Replace("<>", adjective);
text = text.Replace("<>", subject);
text = text.Replace("<>", verb);