Convert Asterisks to <li> Tags?

Jamazon

This is what i'm trying to do

$description contains text entered by the user

for example

$description = "this is line one
this is line two
point one
point two
* this is an intersteing point"

What i need is for ever instance of an asterisk on a new line to be converted to <li> tags

for example

$description = "this is line one
this is line two
<li>point one</li>
<li>point two</li>
<li>this is an intersteing point</li>"

I just cannot for the life of me work out the regular expression to achieve this. I know it's possible as i've done it before but lost the code.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks

Jamie

bad76

Hi,
just do it:

strtr($description ,"*","</li><li>");

see you

[EDIT]
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strtr.php

cyclops

this could be helpfull :

<?php

$stuff = <<<END
* one
* two
* three
END;

$html = preg_replace('/\\* (\w+)/i', '<LI>$1</LI>', $stuff);
echo $html;

?>

edit : board escaped my '\'

Jamazon

no that would just give me...

"this is line one
this is line two
<li>point one
<li>point two
<li>this is an intersteing point"

as all it does is replace every instance of "*" with "<li>" and that's not what i'm looking for

Thanks for you reply anyway though 🙂

Jamie

tsinka

Hi,

try this one:

<?PHP
$description = <<< EOSTR
this is line one
this is line two
* point one
* point two
* this is an interesting point
EOSTR;

$description = preg_replace("/\\*(.*)\n?/","<li>\\\\1</li>",$description);
echo $description;
?>

Jamazon

thats exactly what i was loking for thanks 😃