On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Christian Reiniger wrote:
> On Thursday 18 January 2001 07:40, Nicholas Pappas wrote:
>
> > I was hoping someone could help me with this regular expression...
> >
> > $pattern = "/\[b\](.*)\[\/b\]/Ui";
> > $message = preg_replace($pattern, "<B>\\1</B>", $message);
> >
> > The above works for:
> > [b]bold text[/b]
> >
> > But does not work for:
> > [b]bold text
> > w/ newline[/b]
>
> add a "s" modifier to the expression and
>
> =>
>
> $pattern = "/\[b\](.*)\[\/b\]/Uis";
That, and:
$pattern = "|\[b\](.*?)\[/b\]|is"
Shorter regex by one character, and you can use it in perl, too.
Remember, U is a tacked on feature, but ? has always been there,
it's your friend. I used pipes to remove the necessity of escaping
the forward slash.
Cheers!
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