I've only got a moderate amount of experience working with perl, so my coding isn't always the best, but here's one approach to it... 
my $text = "Here is [id=327]a very cool document[/id] for you";
$text =~ /\[id=([0-9]*)\](.*)\[\/id\]/i;
my $tag = "<A HREF=\"/cgi-bin/coolcode.pl?id=$1\">$2</A>";
my $before = $`;
my $after = $';

print "$before$tag$after\n";

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If you actually put this in a file and run it with Perl, you'll get: 
Here is <A HREF="/cgi-bin/coolcode.pl?id=327">a very cool document</A>
+ for you

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Just as you'd expect and (hopefully) want. :-)

In reply to Re: Monks' Expression by Segfault
in thread Monks' Expression by sinan

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