Hello Monks,

I am trying to do some simple formatting to a text field. I strip the html and want to use my own code to insert a select few html tags.

The way I have it set up now is 
    # change color
    s/\[color=/<font color=\"/gi;
    s/\[\/color\]/<\/font>/gi;

    # change images
    s/\[image=/<img src=\"/gi;

    # change links
    s/\[link=/<a class=side_nav href=\"/gi;
    s/\[\/link\]/<\/a>/gi;

    # Clean up remaining ]'s
    s/\]/\">/g;

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This is poor coding though because any spare ]'s are automatically turned into ">'s.

Is there a way to pull a variable from the center. e.g. Pull var.jpg from [image=var.jpg]

Thanks in advance!!

In reply to Converting custom mark-up to HTML by bkiahg

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