[office politics]

i prolly shouldn't use this at all. I'm unfamilar with RegEx. It could be funto download the javascript and learn how it works.

My understanding is that RegEx isused for string matching. So if I'm looking for a certain string in a long list of strings, I should be able to implement an algoritms with RegEx to find matches. This javascript tool should help me build RegEx code much faster....than learning it the right...errr...long way, lol.

JavaScript Lab - Tools - JS Regex Generator

[CrazeD]

Regex sucks, lol.

I have a book from O'Reilly, Mastering Regular Expressions. I haven't read it much, though I should...

You likely won't be able to take apart working code and "figure it out" rather than just copying it. You'll at least have to learn what all the modifiers and junk are and do, which really, is the hard part.

[office politics]

Originally Posted by CrazeD

Regex sucks, lol.

You likely won't be able to take apart working code and "figure it out" rather than just copying it. You'll at least have to learn what all the modifiers and junk are and do, which really, is the hard part.

not that i can't read and understand code,but more too tedious of a project. 1000+ lines. interesting stuff going on tho.

used this to format it for me Mobilefish.com - Javascript formatter



so crazed, what do you use to match strings? last night did the ol' increment + 1 through a whole file and told myself there has to be a better & faster way.



true i guess about the copy and paste though. here's some code i used for parsing different directory listings in a recent project.

Adarsh's blog : Sample code for parsing FtpwebRequest response for ListDirectoryDetails

[CrazeD]

Well, I've never made anything that iterates through a file like that.

The most I've done with Regex really is make/modify a small bbcode parsing function in PHP.

function bbcode ($string, $imgtag) {
		$string = preg_replace("#\[ quote=(.*?)\]#si", "[ quote]<b>\\1 wrote:</b><br/>",$string); 
		
		//prepare: how often start- and end-tag occurrs
		$starttags = substr_count($string, '[ quote]');
		$endtags = substr_count($string, '[ /quote]');
		
		$overflow=abs($starttags-$endtags);
		
		for($i=0;$i<$overflow;$i++) {
			if($starttags>$endtags) $string=$string.'[ /quote]';
			elseif($endtags>$starttags) $string='[ quote]'.$string;
		}
			
		$string = preg_replace("#\[ quote\]#si", '<table width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" align="center"><tr><td class="gen">', $string, 10);
		$string = preg_replace("#\[ /quote\]#si", '</td></tr></table>',$string, 10); 
	  
		//remove overflowed quote-tags
	  
		$string=eregi_replace('\[ quote\]','',$string);
		$string=eregi_replace('\[ /quote\]','',$string);

		if ($imgtag == 1) {
			$string = preg_replace("#\[img align=(right)\]www.(.*?)\[/img\]#si", "<img src=\"http://\\2\" border=\"0\" class=\"floatRight\" />", $string);
			$string = preg_replace("#\[img align=(right)\](.*?)\[/img\]#si", "<img src=\"\\2\" border=\"0\" class=\"floatRight\" />", $string);
			$string = preg_replace("#\[img align=(left)\]www.(.*?)\[/img\]#si", "<img src=\"http://\\2\" border=\"0\" class=\"floatLeft\" />", $string);
			$string = preg_replace("#\[img align=(left)\](.*?)\[/img\]#si", "<img src=\"\\2\" border=\"0\" class=\"floatLeft\" />", $string);
			$string = preg_replace("#\[img\]www.(.*?)\[/img\]#si", "<img src=\"http://\\1\" border=\"0\" />", $string);
			$string = preg_replace("#\[img\](.*?)\[/img\]#si", "<img src=\"\\1\" border=\"0\" />", $string);
			$string = preg_replace("#\[img:(.*?)\](.*?)\[/img:(.*?)\]#si", "<img src=\"\\2\" border=\"0\" />", $string);
			$string = preg_replace("#\[url\]http://(.*?)\[img\]http://(.*?)\[/img\]\[/url\]#si", "<a href=\"http://\\1\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http://\\2\" border=\"0\"></a>", $string);
			$string = preg_replace("#\[url\]www.(.*?)\[img\]www.(.*?)\[/img\]\[/url\]#si", "<a href=\"http://www.\\1\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http://www.\\2\" border=\"0\"></a>", $string);    
			$string = preg_replace("#\[url=http://(.*?)\]\[img\]http://(.*?)\[/img\]\[/url\]#si", "<a href=\"http://\\1\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http://\\2\" border=\"0\"></a>", $string);
			$string = preg_replace("#\[url=www.(.*?)\]\[img\]www.(.*?)\[/img\]\[/url\]#si", "<a href=\"http://www.\\1\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http://\\2\" border=\"0\"></a>", $string);		
		} else {
			$string = preg_replace("#\[img\](.*?)\[/img\]#si", "\\1", $string);
			$string = preg_replace("#\[img:(.*?)\](.*?)\[/img:(.*?)\]#si", "\\2", $string);
			$string = preg_replace("#\[url\]http://(.*?)\[img\]http://(.*?)\[/img\]\[/url\]#si", "<a href=\"http://\\1\" target=\"_blank\">\\2</a>", $string);
			$string = preg_replace("#\[url\]www.(.*?)\[img\]www.(.*?)\[/img\]\[/url\]#si", "<a href=\"http://www.\\1\" target=\"_blank\">\\2</a>", $string);    
			$string = preg_replace("#\[url=http://(.*?)\]\[img\]http://(.*?)\[/img\]\[/url\]#si", "<a href=\"http://\\1\" target=\"_blank\">\\2</a>", $string);
			$string = preg_replace("#\[url=www.(.*?)\]\[img\]www.(.*?)\[/img\]\[/url\]#si", "<a href=\"http://www.\\1\" target=\"_blank\">\\2</a>", $string);
		}
		
		$string = preg_replace("#\[url\]http://(.*?)\[/url\]#si", "<a href=\"http://\\1\" target=\"_blank\">\\1</a>", $string);            // http://.......
		$string = preg_replace("#\[url\]www.(.*?)\[/url\]#si", "<a href=\"http://\\1\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.\\1</a>", $string);    // www...........
		$string = preg_replace("#\[url=http://(.*?)\](.*?)\[/url\]#si", "<a href=\"http://\\1\" target=\"_blank\">\\2</a>", $string);      // link
		$string = preg_replace("#\[url=www.(.*?)\](.*?)\[/url\]#si", "<a href=\"http://www.\\1\" target=\"_blank\">\\2</a>", $string);     // link

		$string = preg_replace("#(^|[^\"=]{1})(http://|https://|ftp://|mailto:|news:)([^\s<>]+)([\s\n<>]|$)#sm","\\1<a href=\"\\2\\3\" target=\"_blank\">\\3</a>\\4",$string);
		$string = preg_replace("#\[email\](.*?)\[/email\]#si", "<a href=\"mailto:\\1\">\\1</a>", $string);
		$string = preg_replace("#\[email=(.*?)\](.*?)\[/email\]#si", "<a href=\"mailto:\\1\">\\2</a>", $string);
		$string = preg_replace("#\[size=(.*?)\](.*?)\[/size\]#si", "<font size=\"\\1\">\\2</font>", $string);
		$string = preg_replace("#\[color=(.*?)\](.*?)\[/color\]#si", "<font color=\"\\1\">\\2</font>", $string);
		$string = preg_replace("#\[font=(.*?)\](.*?)\[/font\]#si", "<font face=\"\\1\">\\2</font>", $string);
		$string = preg_replace("#\[align=(.*?)\](.*?)\[/align\]#si", "<div align=\"\\1\">\\2</div>", $string);
		$string = preg_replace("#\[b\](.*?)\[/b\]#si", "<b>\\1</b>",$string); 
		$string = preg_replace("#\[i\](.*?)\[/i\]#si", "<i>\\1</i>",$string); 
		$string = preg_replace("#\[u\](.*?)\[/u\]#si", "<u>\\1</u>",$string); 
		$string = preg_replace("#\[s\](.*?)\[/s\]#si", "<s>\\1</s>",$string);

		return $string;
	}

I got started with something that I found Googleing, and then just duplicated the process for the rest of the my tags. I did this quite a long time ago, and it's probably not considered a good approach but, it does work.

[office politics]

im putting this in php bbcode because im lazy

PHP Code:

function bbcode ($string, $imgtag) {
        $string = preg_replace("#\[ quote=(.*?)\]#si", "[ quote]<b>\\1 wrote:</b><br/>",$string); 
        
        //prepare: how often start- and end-tag occurrs
        $starttags = substr_count($string, '[ quote]');
        $endtags = substr_count($string, '[ /quote]');
        
        $overflow=abs($starttags-$endtags);
        
        for($i=0;$i<$overflow;$i++) {
            if($starttags>$endtags) $string=$string.'[ /quote]';
            elseif($endtags>$starttags) $string='[ quote]'.$string;
        }
            
        $string = preg_replace("#\[ quote\]#si", '<table width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" align="center"><tr><td class="gen">', $string, 10);
        $string = preg_replace("#\[ /quote\]#si", '</td></tr></table>',$string, 10); 
      
        //remove overflowed quote-tags
      
        $string=eregi_replace('\[ quote\]','',$string);
        $string=eregi_replace('\[ /quote\]','',$string);

        if ($imgtag == 1) {
            $string = preg_replace("#\[img align=(right)\]www.(.*?)\[/img\]#si", "<img src=\"http://\\2\" border=\"0\" class=\"floatRight\" />", $string);
            $string = preg_replace("#\[img align=(right)\](.*?)\[/img\]#si", "<img src=\"\\2\" border=\"0\" class=\"floatRight\" />", $string);
            $string = preg_replace("#\[img align=(left)\]www.(.*?)\[/img\]#si", "<img src=\"http://\\2\" border=\"0\" class=\"floatLeft\" />", $string);
            $string = preg_replace("#\[img align=(left)\](.*?)\[/img\]#si", "<img src=\"\\2\" border=\"0\" class=\"floatLeft\" />", $string);
            $string = preg_replace("#\[img\]www.(.*?)\[/img\]#si", "<img src=\"http://\\1\" border=\"0\" />", $string);
            $string = preg_replace("#\[img\](.*?)\[/img\]#si", "<img src=\"\\1\" border=\"0\" />", $string);
            $string = preg_replace("#\[img:(.*?)\](.*?)\[/img:(.*?)\]#si", "<img src=\"\\2\" border=\"0\" />", $string);
            $string = preg_replace("#\[url\]http://(.*?)\[img\]http://(.*?)\[/img\]\[/url\]#si", "<a href=\"http://\\1\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http://\\2\" border=\"0\"></a>", $string);
            $string = preg_replace("#\[url\]www.(.*?)\[img\]www.(.*?)\[/img\]\[/url\]#si", "<a href=\"http://www.\\1\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http://www.\\2\" border=\"0\"></a>", $string);    
            $string = preg_replace("#\[url=http://(.*?)\]\[img\]http://(.*?)\[/img\]\[/url\]#si", "<a href=\"http://\\1\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http://\\2\" border=\"0\"></a>", $string);
            $string = preg_replace("#\[url=www.(.*?)\]\[img\]www.(.*?)\[/img\]\[/url\]#si", "<a href=\"http://www.\\1\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http://\\2\" border=\"0\"></a>", $string);        
        } else {
            $string = preg_replace("#\[img\](.*?)\[/img\]#si", "\\1", $string);
            $string = preg_replace("#\[img:(.*?)\](.*?)\[/img:(.*?)\]#si", "\\2", $string);
            $string = preg_replace("#\[url\]http://(.*?)\[img\]http://(.*?)\[/img\]\[/url\]#si", "<a href=\"http://\\1\" target=\"_blank\">\\2</a>", $string);
            $string = preg_replace("#\[url\]www.(.*?)\[img\]www.(.*?)\[/img\]\[/url\]#si", "<a href=\"http://www.\\1\" target=\"_blank\">\\2</a>", $string);    
            $string = preg_replace("#\[url=http://(.*?)\]\[img\]http://(.*?)\[/img\]\[/url\]#si", "<a href=\"http://\\1\" target=\"_blank\">\\2</a>", $string);
            $string = preg_replace("#\[url=www.(.*?)\]\[img\]www.(.*?)\[/img\]\[/url\]#si", "<a href=\"http://www.\\1\" target=\"_blank\">\\2</a>", $string);
        }
        
        $string = preg_replace("#\[url\]http://(.*?)\[/url\]#si", "<a href=\"http://\\1\" target=\"_blank\">\\1</a>", $string);            // http://.......
        $string = preg_replace("#\[url\]www.(.*?)\[/url\]#si", "<a href=\"http://\\1\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.\\1</a>", $string);    // www...........
        $string = preg_replace("#\[url=http://(.*?)\](.*?)\[/url\]#si", "<a href=\"http://\\1\" target=\"_blank\">\\2</a>", $string);      // link
        $string = preg_replace("#\[url=www.(.*?)\](.*?)\[/url\]#si", "<a href=\"http://www.\\1\" target=\"_blank\">\\2</a>", $string);     // link

        $string = preg_replace("#(^|[^\"=]{1})(http://|https://|ftp://|mailto:|news:)([^\s<>]+)([\s\n<>]|$)#sm","\\1<a href=\"\\2\\3\" target=\"_blank\">\\3</a>\\4",$string);
        $string = preg_replace("#\[email\](.*?)\[/email\]#si", "<a href=\"mailto:\\1\">\\1</a>", $string);
        $string = preg_replace("#\[email=(.*?)\](.*?)\[/email\]#si", "<a href=\"mailto:\\1\">\\2</a>", $string);
        $string = preg_replace("#\[size=(.*?)\](.*?)\[/size\]#si", "<font size=\"\\1\">\\2</font>", $string);
        $string = preg_replace("#\[color=(.*?)\](.*?)\[/color\]#si", "<font color=\"\\1\">\\2</font>", $string);
        $string = preg_replace("#\[font=(.*?)\](.*?)\[/font\]#si", "<font face=\"\\1\">\\2</font>", $string);
        $string = preg_replace("#\[align=(.*?)\](.*?)\[/align\]#si", "<div align=\"\\1\">\\2</div>", $string);
        $string = preg_replace("#\[b\](.*?)\[/b\]#si", "<b>\\1</b>",$string); 
        $string = preg_replace("#\[i\](.*?)\[/i\]#si", "<i>\\1</i>",$string); 
        $string = preg_replace("#\[u\](.*?)\[/u\]#si", "<u>\\1</u>",$string); 
        $string = preg_replace("#\[s\](.*?)\[/s\]#si", "<s>\\1</s>",$string);

        return $string;
    } 


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