Please help me with PREG_MATCH

[Krakatioison]

Hi all,

I need a help to write a simple preg_match.
Imagine, I've got like 5kb of text where one part of the text always

starts with: [quote:129beec637]
and ends with: [/quote:129beec637]

Number after "[quote:" is always different and changing its length.

I need to parse this and display it using different color.
Just so, when I display the text, people could figure out where the
quotation starts and ends.

Could someone please help me with it?
Thanks a lot. Every help is very appreciated and helps me a lot.

Joe

[daniel]

A pattern like this would do the job:
'/\[quote:.*\](.*)\[\/quote:.*\]/'

preg_match('/\[quote:.*\](.*)\[\/quote:.*\]/', $string, $result);
$result[1...] will hold what is between the quote

But if I understand what you want to do, I would use preg_replace instead.
Something like that:

preg_replace('/\[quote:.*\](.*)\[\/quote:.*\]/', "<span
style=\"color:blue\">$1</span>", $string);

It also get rid of the [quote:...] and [/quote:...]

Dae


"Krakatioison" <com> a écrit dans le message de
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[daniel]

A little correction:
The previous pattern would match [quote:...][/quote:..] that doesn't
match... it's not good
here is one that should fix that:
'/\[quote:(.*)\](.*)\[\/quote:.\\1]/'

preg_replace("/\[quote:(.*)\](.*)\[\/quote:\\1\]/", "<div
style=\"color:blue\">$2</div>", $a);

Dae


"daniel arsenault" <ca> a écrit dans le message
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[Oli]

"daniel arsenault" <ca> wrote: 

Whilst this will work for some situations, it won't incorporate line-breaks
in the quote text, it is case-sensitive (i.e. you can't use [QUOTE:...]),
and doesn't check for invalid quotes (e.g. [quote:Z!"]).

It also doesn't match [quote] tags by number, and is greedy. For instance,
an input string of:

Some words [quote:1]HELLO[/quote:1] more words
[quote:2]GOODBYE[/quote:2] even more words

will only have one quote block converted, between [quote:1] and [/quote:2].

Oli.

[daniel]

> Whilst this will work for some situations, it won't incorporate
line-breaks 

I totally forgot case and newlines, thanks.
For the check I don't really know what are valid characters so I'll assume
letters and digits:

Here would be the new pattern:
"/\[quote:([a-z0-9]*)\](.*)\[\/quote:\\1\]/is"
Possible use:
preg_replace("/\[quote:([a-z0-9]*)\](.*)\[\/quote:\\1\]/is", "<div
style=\"color:blue\">$2</div>", $a);


 
[/quote:2].


This one I fixed it by using backreference to make sure that opening and
closing [quote] match


Dae