Re: Linking with regular expressions

what about this? $s = "aaa aaa [xxxx xxx|zzzz] ccccc" ; $r = '<a href="http://www.mysite.com/mypage.php?\\2">\\1</a>' ; $p = '/\[(.*)\|(.*)\]/Us' ; preg_replace( $p , $r , $s ) ; produces: aaa aaa <a href="http://www.mysite.com/mypage.php? zzzz ">xxxx xxx</a> ccccc At 15:54 23.12. 2000, Anton Permykov wrote the following: -------------------------------------------------------------- >After trying again and again it seems I just don't understand regular >expressions as well as I wish to, so maybe someone more experienced could >help out. > >I want to convert every "[some text here|link]" (without quotes) into <a >href="http://www.mysite.com/mypage.php?link">some >text here</a> > >Maybe someone can help me with writing a pattern for this? > >Thank you, >Anton. > > >-- >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 ------end of quote------ ____________________________________________________________ Cynic: A member of a group of ancient Greek philosophers who taught that virtue constitutes happiness and that self control is the essential part of virtue. cynic@mail.cz