Hi James,
This is what you want
$body=eregi_replace ("<a
href=\"([^>]+)\">([^<]+)</a>","[url=\"\\1\"]\\2[/url]",$body);
You were checking for no ['s in the string instead of no >'s or <'s
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----- Original Message -----
From: "James Crowley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "PHP List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 6:26 AM
Subject: [PHP] What's wrong with this regular expression?
> Hi,
> Could someone please point out where I've gone wrong with this regular
> expression...?
>
> $body="<a href=\"http://www.fred.com\";>my test</a> or <a
> href=\"/show.asp?id=333\">here</a>";
> $body=eregi_replace ("<a
> href=\"([^\\[]*)\">([^\\[]*)</a>","[url=\"\\1\"]\\2[/url]",$body);
>
> #$body should now be
> [url="http://www.fred.com"]my test[/url] or
> [url="/show.asp?id=333"]here[/url]
> #but instead, it is
> [url="http://www.fred.com";>my test</a> or <a
> href=\"/show.asp?id=333\"]here[/url]
> echo $body;
>
> Thanks
>
> - James
>
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