regular expression

I need to do a find & replace, and have been unable to get one part of it working. Let's say I have the text: line 1 line 2 [code] line a line b [/code] line 3 It should be converted into: line 1<br> line 2<br> <pre> line a line b </pre> line 3<br> I want to convert all new lines to <br>'s, unless it falls within the [code] tag. This for a forum that allows people to use a pseudo html language to markup their posts. The [code] tages are translated to <pre>'s, but Netscape then double spaces, because the <pre> (by nature) treats the new line as a <br> and then the nl2br() function adds a <br> as well. It works fine on IE, but I'd rather it look proper on all browsers. So in summary I need a regular expression (perl comaptible) that will replace all new lines to "<br>", unless they fall in between "[code][/code]" tags. Or, a regular expression that would remove all newlines between "[code]" tags would work as well. I'm creating an array of expressions using the perl compatible. Looks somewhat like this: $search = array ( '/\[b\](.+)\[\/b\]/', '/\[i\](.+)\[\/i\]/', '/\[u\](.+)\[\/u\]/', '/\[url\](.+)\[\/url\]/', '/\[url (.+)\](.+)\[\/url\]/', '/\[code\](.+)\[\/code\]/s'); $replace = array ( '<b>\1</b>', '<i>\1</i>', '<u>\1</u>', '<a href="\1" target="_blank" class="lightbg">\1</a>', '<a href="\1" target="_blank" class="lightbg">\2</a>', '<pre>\1</pre>'); -- Matthew Leverton - matthew@aeroinc.net