Platform: PCRE Purpose:  am trying to teach myself a little PCRE.  In particular an expression has been nagging me: <?php $text="this-that <a href=\"http://www.my-site.com/index.php\">this-that</a> ...

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,  Let me explain the scenerio: I have the input text "Mr. XYZ is a very nice person and have a very good taste of humor" I want to write one replace string and once pattern string such that I can do the following things: er -> gh av -> th these are two papperts that I can match with the pattern string ...

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,, Any body please help me on this preg_replace.. My need is to add one extra space to in front of the characters except some limited character. For any tag which has the form "<XXXXX> OR</XXXXX> should be added one extra space like " <XXXXX> OR </XXXXX>" except "<span> OR ...

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 ...

Hi,  In PHP I'm trying to filter the string looking for: [options=1,6,22,103] and then to extract numeric values into the array. As I just started my fun with regular expressions, the only way I can do it is like: preg_match('\/[options=(.*?)\]/', $content, $matches); But that will return numbers separated with commas, which ...