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I know that you could check to see if the tag is around the text easily. It's Regular Expressions of course.

That's the hard way to do it. The easy way to do it is to write a parser to transform text into a data structure, then walk the data structure to transform it into another data structure from which it's easy to emit the right text.

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In reply to Re: Make a Markup Method in Perl? by chromatic
in thread Make a Markup Method in Perl? by perl.j

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