Re: preg_match_all for dummies

Kristen G. Thorson wrote:

I am a regex retard.

good for you ;-) why not take the easy route and simply strip out all HTML comments (and whatever maybe inside them) from the string(s) before you do the search for the 'bbcode'?

I am trying to pull keywords out of this crazy bbcode-like file, but only for bbcode-like code NOT enclosed in HTML comments. I currently have managed to create this regex: '/(?<!<!--)\[!(\w+)::.*!\](?!-->)/U' Which matches [!keyword::crazy bbcode!] and not <!--[!keyword::crazy bbcode!]-->

That's a step in the right direction. But it includes in the match keywords within phrases like this: <!-- A sentence including some [!keyword::crazy bbcode!]. --> I want to ignore all bbcode within HTML quotes. How do I do this? thanks kgt