Regexp Help

Aeiri

I have a regular expression:

"[ q u o t e ]+[ / q u o t e ]"

But I want it to terminate after the FIRST "[ / q u o t e ]". How would I do that?

Thanks.

Note: There are no spaces in the words, I have to put them there so vB doesn't parse them...

Aeiri

Nevermind, I THINK I have it, tell me if I am wrong.

"[ q u o t e ](.*)[ / q u o t e ]"

planetsim

Im not entirely sure thats correct. Change this around a bit its what i use for bold text

$bold = "/([B])(.+)([\/B])/";

so change that to

$quote = "/([quote])(.+)([\/quote])/";

Now i havent tested it with the change but as its virtually the same as bold it should work.

The do this
with the \2 just have what you wanna use. Most likely blockquote
$message = preg_replace($quote,"\2",$message);

Weedpacket

One change to planetsim's code: (.+?) - in case there is more than one quoted block.

And since you're not wanting to retain the pseudotags themselves, you don't need to () them; in which case you'd use \1 instead of \2. (It's a touch faster, and uses a touch less memory, because parenthesised subexpressions are recorded.)

Aeiri

Originally posted by Weedpacket
One change to planetsim's code: (.+?) - in case there is more than one quoted block.

Could you explain that sentence in another way? I don't exactly understand what you are trying to say there.

Weedpacket

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The reason is, without the ? .+ will quite happily match "[/ quote]" and "[ quote]" as well. So if you have

Some text that has [ quote]more than one[ /quote] bit of text contained in [ quote]quote blocks[ /quote]

then [quote](.+)[/quote] will match

[ quote]more than one[ /quote] bit of text contained in [ quote]quote blocks[ /quote]

- which is probably not what you want. Putting the ? in makes the .+ match as little as it can (so long as the whole expression can still succesfully match) - in this case, only up to the first [ /quote] it sees. So with the above text, [quote](.+?)[/quote] matches

[ quote]more than one[ /quote]