Regexp fun

[degauss]

I'm trying to return an <a href... tag using the following line...

$code=eregi_replace("((http|mailto|ftp):\/\/[^{[:space:]<>]{1,})",} "<a href='\1'>\1</a>",$code);

However, i'm trying to make this line work by getting regexps to check if the string DOESN'T begin with "[url" or "[url="

If someone could help me out, that'd be great 🙂

[[deleted]]

Confusion.
What are you trying to do. Can you give a sample input and output?

[degauss]

Okay.

Input:

http://www.blah.com

Blah

http://www.blah.com

SHOULD be outputted as...

<a href="http://www.blah.com">http://www.blah.com</a>

<a href="http://www.blah.com">Blah</a>

<a href="http://www.blah.com">http://www.blah.com</a>

But say the eregi_replace i've specified happens BEFORE the other eregi_replaces, it all goes to cock and spits out broken <a href> stuff.

[[deleted]]

Aha, so you have several regexp that are all executed on the same string and they each change one format into the next?

Then indeed you first have to check wether each regexp needs to be executed on the string.
Wouldn't a simple thing like
if (preg_match('/^http/', $sString))
{
ereg_replace....;
};

do the trick?