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I'm trying to do what I think should be a very simple find, crop, and pad exercise in php.<BR>
What I want to do is this:
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<LI TYPE=1 VALUE=1>Find a string which is surrounded by [[ and ]]
<LI TYPE=1 VALUE=2>replace [[ with <a href="foo.bar.co.uk/
<LI TYPE=1 VALUE=3>put in the string
<LI TYPE=1 VALUE=4>put in ">
<LI TYPE=1 VALUE=5>put in the string, again, so it shows up in the html output
<LI TYPE=1 VALUE=6>replace the ]] with </a>
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I've got a regex which can do this, BUT it's a greedy little bugger so only works if there is only one instance in the text, which just doesn't happen.<BR>
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$page['content'] = ereg_replace("\[\[(.*)]]",<BR>
'<a href="'.$site["url"].'/page/\\1">\\1</a>', $page['content']);<BR>
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I've tried putting some ?s in there to try and make it lazy, but get REG_BADRPT errors, so I must be putting it in the wrong place?<BR>
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Any help appreciated, I've been going around in circles trying to work this one out, and I've not found anything on the 'net that is of use.<BR>
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Thanks,<BR>
Christopher Joice<BR>
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<A HREF="http://chrisjoice.co.uk">http://chrisjoice.co.uk</A><BR>
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"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house."<BR>
-- George Carlin
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