Re: Regex not quite working- [b] tags

grab all the contents between b and /b

If I had correctly understood the idea, this is

/
    \[b\]   # match a [b]
    .*?     # match anything (non greedy)
    \[\/b\] # match the next [/b]
/xg
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maybe a problem with the greedy nature of your regex?

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Re^2: Regex not quite working- [b] tags by ultranerds (Hermit) on Sep 20, 2011 at 12:26 UTC
Thanks guys, I tried something like this before, but I must have been missing the ? ... doh! `while ($post_message =~ /\[b\](.+?)\[\/b\]/sg) { print "BOLD: $1 \n\n"; $bold_length += length($1); }` [download] Working like a charm now - thanks! Andy	[reply] [d/l]