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jessma
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Aug 4, 2003, 8:29 AM

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Substitute codes to html	Can't Post

I'm new to both regexp and perl, and I've really tried to find a solution to this, but I couldn't find any.

I'm writing a forum and I don't want the users to be able to use html. So far, so good, I've got that to work. Although I still want them to be able to post a (or several) link or picture, with the help of special codes, such as:

Code

[url:www.aplace.com]a place (a end here which I can't get to show)

and then convert them into an ordinary a href-tag. Many forum, like this one, use this.

Any ideas someone?

davorg
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Aug 5, 2003, 1:08 AM

Post #2 of 4 (1569 views)

Re: [jessma] Substitute codes to html [In reply to]	Can't Post

Something like this perhaps (untested)...

Code

$text =~ s|\[url:(.*?)](.*?)\[endurl]|<a href="$1">$2</a>|;

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jessma
New User

Aug 5, 2003, 2:29 AM

Post #3 of 4 (1568 views)

Re: [davorg] Substitute codes to html [In reply to]	Can't Post

Thank you! It worked!!

Paul
Enthusiast

Aug 5, 2003, 3:22 AM

Post #4 of 4 (1566 views)

Re: [davorg] Substitute codes to html [In reply to]	Can't Post

Better to use ([^\[]+) instead of (.*?) seeing as it's quicker and a URL shouldn't have any occurance of [ in it.

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