No Return for Regular Expressions

[chrisdarby]

Hello everyone...

I have another little problem...

I have the following code

$mask = '![clause].*[/clause]!U'; 
$found = preg_match_all($mask, $contentdata, $matches); 
$result = count($matches[0]);
$result = count($matches[0]);
$start = 0;
while ($start < $result) {
	$tmpstring = str_replace("<clause>","",$matches[0][$start]);
	$tmpstring = str_replace("</clause>","",$tmpstring);
                $start++;
}

Now this code will match
"This is some text with a [clause]this that the other[/clause] and some other stuff"

and return "this that the other" for me to process

however if it will not pickup

"This is some text
[clause]
this is some
and so is this
[/clause]
because it can"

I would like the code to look at the previous text and return:
"this is some
and so is this"

Any ideas... im not very experienced with regular expressions, can anyone help ?

Thanks
Chris

[Frederick]

From what I see, you are trying a preg_replace() to replace a found match for the use with BBCode.

$content = "My name is [clause]superman[/clause].";
$content = preg_replace("|\[clause](.+)\[/clause]|i","<u>\\1</u>",$content);
echo $content;

This will print out:
My name is superman.

[Weedpacket]

![clause].*[/clause]!Us