eregi_replace - Please help

[Anon]

I want to change any [link]http://myplace.tld Look at my site[/link] into <a href="http://myplace.tld">Look at my site</a>.

This is done with the following code:

• - - - $string_url=eregi_replace("[link]([[:alnum:]]+)://([^{[:space:]]*)([[:alnum:]#?/&=])space[/link]","<a} href=\"\1://\2\3\" target=\"_blank\">\4</a>", $string);

echo $string_url;

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(Where $string is the input).

It seems to work, but if there are more then one [link]... ...[/link] in the input, it makes a link that goes from the first [link] to the last [/link]. In other words it goes by the first [/link] and only uses the last one, which creates a really long and strange link ;o(

Can anyone please tell me what i'm doing wrong?

I've been going trough the artikel about regex (on this site), but what i'm doing here seems to be on a higher level. Since it works if there are only one [link]... ...[/link], I guess the problem is around the [/link] (stop code).

Thanks in advance.

With kind regards
Michael Rasmussen.

[Anon]

Try right here:

](.*)[/link]

to put a question mark after the .* like

](.*?)[/link]

In pcre (perl regular expressions) this makes the * non-greedy (i.e. won't match everything.) I'm not sure if it works with ereg, but should. Hope that helps!

Chris King

[michael_r]

Thank you for the reply, unfortunately the question mark doesn't seem to change the output 🙁

Do you have any other suggestions?

With kind regards
Michael Rasmussen.