RegExp woes

Anon

Hi all,

I'm trying to write a regular expression to convert pseudo-ubb markup into HTML, and failing miserably. my RE's arent that strong (obviously) and I've tried so many variations on this its not even funny. Can someone help?

The pseudo UBB is in the form [link=http://www.url.com] or [link=www.url.com], and i want to turn it into a normal HTML hyperlink.

This is the regExp I've got so far:

$txt = preg_replace("(\[link=http://)(.*)(\])","<a href=\"http://\2\" target=\"externallink\">",$txt);
$txt = preg_replace("(\[link=)(.*)(\])","<a href=\"http://\2\" target=\"externallink\">",$txt);

But it fails miserably.

Can anybody point me in the right direction here?

TIA,

kerin

Anon

Try this:

$txt = preg_replace('/[link=http://(.?)](.?)[\/link]/','/<a href="http://\1\" target="externallink">\2</a>',$txt);

Since you're using perl regex's, you have to enclose your regex in / and /, like this:

/myregex*/

that's because it's perl regex's. If you were using Ereg, it would be different.

--Jason

Anon

thanks for that, but I'm still getting errors:

unknown modifier '/'

this is preg rather than ereg.

Thanks,

Kerin

Anon

Well screw preg 😃
Here's my solution using ereg...
$txt = ereg_replace ( "[link=(http://)?([^]])]", "<a href=\"http://\2\" target=\"externallink\">", $txt );
Should work crosses fingers*