On 17/11/06, Paul Novitski <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:> At 11/16/2006 08:46 PM, Myron Turner wrote:> >The underscore plus alphanumeric are included in \w, so to get a> >regex such as you want:> > [\w\s\.\-&\']+> >You should escape the dot because the unescaped dot stands for any> >single character, which is why .* stands for any and all characters.>>> Not actually. Inside a character class, a dot is just a period. You> may escape it (or any other character) but you don't need to. To> quote the manual:> ______________________>> Meta-characters> ...> In a character class the only meta-characters are:>> \> general escape character>> ^> negate the class, but only if the first character>> -> indicates character range>> ]> terminates the character class>> ...>> Square brackets> ...> A closing square bracket on its own is not special. If a closing> square bracket is required as a member of the class, it should be the> first data character in the class (after an initial circumflex, if> present) or escaped with a backslash.> ...> All non-alphanumeric characters other than \, -, ^ (at the start) and> the terminating ] are non-special in character classes, but it does> no harm if they are escaped.> ______________________>> http://ca.php.net/manual/en/reference.pcre.pattern.syntax.php> In any case, none of those solutions work. Try code: <?php $makeLinkPlaceHolder=0; function findLinks ($matches) { global $linkTextArrayPlaceHolder; ++$linkTextArrayPlaceHolder; // Make two peices and fill them with what they should be $matches[0]=str_replace("[", "", $matches[0] ); $matches[0]=str_replace("]", "", $matches[0] ); $parts=explode("|", $matches[0]); print "<br /><br />$parts[0] | $parts[1]"; $returnString="[".$linkTextArrayPlaceHolder."]"; return $returnString;} $text="This is some text.This tag has no spaces and no pipes [TestTag]This tag has no spaces and a pipe [TestTag|AfterPipe]This tag has a space and no pipes [Test Tag]This tag has a space and a pipe [Test Tag|AfterPipe]"; // Clean up the text$text=str_replace("\r\n", "\n", $text);$text=str_replace("\r", "\n", $text);$text=str_replace("\n", "<br />", $text); print $text; // THIS IS THE PROBLEMATIC CODE$text=preg_replace_callback('/\[([A-Za-z0-9\¦\'.-]+)\]/i' ,"findLinks", $text); print "<br /><br />".$text;?> Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/http://what-is-what.com/
