I have this problem that has been driving me nuts, and I can't find the answer...

Lets say I have this code:

my $text = 'This test creates a [color=blue] blue [/color] word. And a
+ [color=red] red [/color] one';

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As you can see its a string with special command [color=blue] wich I want to substitute for "<font color="blue">" and [/color] to "</font>"...

Now here is the code I've been trying out: 

my ($color,@colors);
my $new = $text;

@colors = $new =~ m/\[color=.*\]/gi;

print @colors;

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Now...according to me "@colors" should print out:

[color=blue]
[color=red]

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Wich it isnt happening...could someone help me out... THANKS

In reply to regexp problem using custom markup by kidd

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