String manipulation

[carole2]

username wrote:

This is a message

1) I want to replace the bracketed information (the two quote boxes) in the above string with html code<span>. Note:the username is a different length each time.

2) Before replacing the quoted brackets with html code I want to check for the existence of the starting quote and finishing quote.

3) I also want to pull out the username in the string and assign it to a variable.

Any ideas?

Thanks
carole

[drawmack]

[man]preg_replace[/man]

[carole2]

Originally posted by drawmack
[man]preg_replace[/man]

The below seems to work. Please correct me if im wrong:

To get the message in quotes:

$message = preg_replace('#\[quote=(.*?)\](.*?)\[/quote\]#i', 'Quote from <strong>$1</strong>:<br/><span class="msghighlight">$2</span>', $message); 

To remove the quotes and message:

$message = preg_replace('#\[quote=(.*?)\](.*?)\[/quote\]#', ' ', $message); 

[drawmack]

Get yourself a copy of the regex coach (http://www.weitz.de/regex-coach/) it comes in very handy for validating perl regular expressions.