Re: Problem with RegEx for BBCode

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On 27-11-10 18:44, Asmann, Roland wrote:
> On 27-11-10 17:24, Daniel P. Brown wrote:
>  > On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 08:57, Asmann, Roland <Roland.Asmann@xxxxxxxxx>
>  > wrote:
>  > > Hi all,
>  > >
>  > > I am playing around with PHP and BBCodes and have found some regex's
>  > > that should transform my BBCode into correct HTML when rendering.
>  > > However, I have found that if the BBCode is not correct (eg missing
>  > > closing tag), the regex completely eats my input and my page is empty!
>  > [snip!]
>  > >
>  > > What I would like is that when no closing tag is found, the opening tag
>  > > should just be shown as-is. Anybody have any idea how I can do this?
>  >
>  >
>  > Have you checked into the built-in BBCode library?
>  >
>  > http://php.net/bbcode
>
> I'm afraid that is not an option, I don't have that package installed
> and am not allowed to install anything on the server either...

Besides, what I don't really understand is WHY does this happen? Any 
other language that has RegEx doesn't match a thing in my example and 
just returns the original input. Why is PHP different in this regard?

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