Problem with eregi_replace

[Anon]

This:

$nnews = eregi_replace("[IMG](.*)[/IMG]", "<img src=\"http://\1\">", $nnews);

works fine when there's only once
in $nnews. But as soon as this is twice in $nnews, I get an broken Image.

ie if you have this string as $nnews:

you get this as result:

<img src=&quot;http://url1[/img] <img src=&quot;url2&quot;>

Is it possible that this function replaces all tags?

[Anon]

More regex commands are "greedy" which means that they will take everything up to the last delimeter in the list.

You need to do some negating in your clause to keep it from grabbing everything.

$nnews = eregi_replace("[IMG](.*i<b>[^{[/IMG]]</b>)[/IMG]",} "<img src=\"http://\1\">", $nnews);

This might work, but I haven't tested it. Basically it's saying grab everything after [IMG] except for [\IMG]. It should stop the greedy behaviour. But test it out, it probalby needs some tweaking.

[Anon]

To easily disable greedy behaviour, you can use PERL regexp :

$nnews=preg_replace("/[IMG](.*)[\/IMG]/Usi","<img src=\"http://\1\">",$nnews);

The U modifier means ungreedy.

P.S. I suppose it was a typo, but you wrote \1 instead of \1.