Re: Regular Expression problem

I thought of that, but the reason I want it this way is that if a user forgets to close a tag the whole layout's screwed up.... So I wanna parse only if [i] AND [/i] exist.... But thanks anyway for your suggestion! Ilja "Monte Ohrt" <monte@ispi.net> schreef in bericht news:3A0C73E8.EFFDA538@ispi.net... > Hi Ilja, > > You could probably figure out some complex regular expression to solve > this particular problem, although this may not be as quick or as safe as > breaking things down into managable parts. Maybe you could first search > and replace your static tags with str_replace, like so: > > $bbcode = str_replace("[i]","<i>",$bbcode); > $bbcode = str_replace("[/i]","</i>",$bbcode); > $bbcode = str_replace("[/url]","</a>",$bbcode); > .... (etc, all of your static tags) > > > str_replace() is much faster than regular expression matching, so only > use ereg_* where absolutely necessary. So after you do this, you are > left with your dynamic tags, such as [url=...] > > example: > [url=<link>]<i><hyperlink></i></a> > > Now go ahead with your ereg_replace for hrefs: > > $bbcode = ereg_replace("\[url=([^\]]+)\]","<a href=\\1>",$bbcode); > ... and so on for any other dynamic tags > > > Monte > > Ilja Hehenkamp wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm stuck within a regex problem, > > > > I know you can match charachters until a character you DON'T want to match, > > something like: > > > > [^#]* > > > > matches all character until a # > > > > but what when you wanna list until a whole WORD? > > > > Here's my example: > > > > $bbcode=eregi_replace("(\[size=)([^]]*)(])([^[/size\]]*)(\[/size\])", "<font > > size=\\2>\\4</font>",$bbcode); > > > > This searches for [url=<LINK>]<HYPERLINK>[/url] and parses it to <a > > href="<LINK>"><HYPERLINK></a> > > > > the ([^]]*) part is to avoid greediness but now he doesn't parse things > > like: [url=<link>][i]<hyperlink>[/i][/url] which is logical because he has > > to quit when he meets a '[' > > > > What I want to do that he only stops when he finds: [/url], but [^[/url]] or > > [^\[/url\]] doesn't work.... > > > > Anyone understands what I mean and knows the answer? > > > > Thanks! > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >