Re^3: Recursive Regex

So I'm thankful for the help!

First off: deMize Ť he ť

Second, I'm not sure what I did was the best way of going about things. What I'm doing is just building a CMS insertion page with as little markup as possible, where each section is contained in it's own div.

Response:

The first problem was getting each into their own div, which the lookahead helped. To accomplish this, it just ends the current div when it hits a new section (may be a subsection in the future).

The reason for removing the line breaks was because I was using that as a delimiter for the last section --- there is probably a better way of doing that with determining the end of the string in the RegEx (maybe $), but I need to replace those line breaks with HTML breaks anyhow.

The problem:

This means that it is going to be linear with no sub-divs. I might have to rethink that for later, because I might want to have something like this later:

[section]
[top]Top Data
[middle]Mid Data
[bottom]Bottom Data

[section]
[top]Top Data
[bottom]Bottom Data
[download]

Should result to:

<div class="section">
   <div class="top">Top Data</div>
   <div class="middle">Middle Data</div>
   <div class="bottom">Bottom Data</div>
</div>
<div class="section">
   <div class="top">Top Data</div>
   <div class="bottom">Bottom Data</div>
</div>
[download]

What I plan to do is store either the sub sections in an array or the sections in an array. I could probably use help with a better algorithm.
The whole purpose of this was so that I could quickly type the data into one input box, without building a whole intricate interface (that can come later).

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Re^4: Recursive Regex by furry_marmot (Pilgrim) on Mar 19, 2009 at 20:36 UTC
What about something like: `[section] top=Top Data middle=Mid Data bottom=Bottom Data [section] top=Top Data bottom=Bottom Data` [download] Now you've got a built-in qualitative difference that makes the parsing easier.	[reply] [d/l]