Re: Parsing brackets in text

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On 12/11/06, Chris <dmagick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I need to replace text enclosed in brackets with links. How can I get
> that text, though? I've tried numerous variations of the following,
> with no success:
> $articleText=preg_replace('/\[[a-z]]/i' , makeLink($1), $articleText);
>
> I cannot get the text between the brackets send to the makeLink
> function. Could someone push me in the right direction? An example of
> the text would be:
> $articleText="Ajax is an acronym of Asynchronous [JavaScript] and [XML]";
>
> Where I'd like the strings "JavaScript" and "XML" sent to the makeLink
> function. Thanks in advance.

Don't know if this is your problem but you need to escape the trailing ]
as well:

preg_replace('/\[[a-z]\]/i', .....


Thanks, but that wasn't quite it, either. This code:

<?php
function makeLink($title) {
   $returnString="<b>$title</b>";
   return $returnString;
}

$articleText="This is a very [long] string.";
$articleText=preg_replace('/\[[a-z]\]/i' , makeLink($1), $articleText);
print $articleText;
?>

produces this error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_LNUMBER, expecting T_VARIABLE
or '$' in /home/user/public_html/testpage.php on line 9

I'm sorry that I didn't include the error message in my original
email. Also, I got the same error with and without the last closing
bracket escaped.

Dotan Cohen

http://simplesniff.com/

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