Re: How do I do this

This is untested, but something like... $str = "[hi] there, this is me [HI] there, this is me"; $newstring = ereg_replace("(\[[A-Z]*])", "<br>\\1", $str); should do it. using the Perl regexe's might make it easier, but that should work. On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Boget, Chris wrote: > I've got the following possible (example) strings: > > [hi] there, this is me [HI] there, this is me > [ho] there, that is you [HO] there, that is you > [hey] there, where are you [HEY] there, where are you > > and so on. I'm trying to come up with a regex that will > find the capitalized text (only) between the square brackets, > including the brackets (ie, the [HI], [HO], [HEY]) and > basically put a <br> right before. So, after the regex/replace, > it'll look like this: > > [hi] there, this is me <br>[HI] there, this is me > [ho] there, that is you <br>[HO] there, that is you > [hey] there, where are you <br>[HEY] there, where are you > > Now, the text between the brackets will be unknown, so I can't > just do an instr() or strstr(). > > Any suggestions? > > Chris >