I have this kind of strings:  {test1|test2|test3} This is easy to match with something like:  ~{(.*?)}~  But I would like to be able to match strings like: {test1|test2|test3{subtest1|subtest2}} or {test1|test2|test3{subtest1|subtest2{subsubtest1|subsubtest2|subsubtest3}}} I can't figure out how I could match that in the ...

Hi regex experts, I’m searching for a regular expression for PHP’s preg_replace() in order to adjust concatenated strings (no multi-line). These strings are fragments in German which form a sentence and therefore need to be (automatically) edited to adhere to grammar conventions. Roughly speaking, the regular expression should ...

what i'm trying to do is remove all line breaks in and around certain html (or xml if you will) elements (h[0-9], ul, li) from a string the following works fine for removing leading and trailing line breaks, but not the ones inside the element: $text = ...

I am working on making a bbcode system with php using preg_replace(), and I am making it so that other tags will not work inside of a code block. This is the code I am currently using, it almost works: /(?!\[code\])(.*)(\[b\])(.+)(\[\/b\])(.*)(?<!\[\/code\])/Usi  what I want it to do is if [*code] and [*/code] are around the text inside, ...

I'm trying to find words in HTML that are between tags using PHP (v5.2.6) preg_replace. The following rules apply to the matches full word match only (can also be matched when adjacent to non-word characters such as commas, parenthesis, periods, question marks, exclamation marks, percentage, dollar signs) e.g. "test" would ...

I need the following string: [Link Name|Link Description] (this is standard mediawiki text for links) to become this: "Link Description"[Link Name] (this is a proprietary wiki format) Link Description and Link Name are arbitrary values...it will always be bracket, text, pipe, text, bracket I'm using php and I've attempted to ...

Hi, Anybody knows how to replace the second or third instance of word in a text using regular expression in php (preg_replace()) For example, I have an article about car and let's say the word car occurs 10 times. Now I want to replace the 3rd and 7th instance of car with some other word. How can I do this with php regular ...

Hi, I asking for help in my PHP code optimization. I try to rewrite my old/slow BBCode conversion function to use regex. The allowed BBCodes are [ b]text[ /b] [ i]text[ /i] [ url]domain.com[ /url] or [ url]domain.com|domainname[ /url] [ img]filename.ext[ /img] or [ img]filename.ext|description[ /img] It is possible to construct ...