{PHP} Regular expressions trouble

[Alex.]

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Can anyone tell me what the POSIX expression for any character is?
I'm trying

$data = ereg_replace('<b([^.]+)>','[b]',$data);

But that gives me:

Fixed a bug that disconnected some....

Instead of:

[/b]Bug Fixes[/b]<ul class="bullet-list"><li>Fixed a bug that disconnected some....

All I need is an expression that will grab any character.

So I could ask it to parse

<b class="subhead">Bug Fixes[/b]<ul class="bullet-list"><li>Fixed a bug that di

into

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that di

• 
  
  Thanks
  
  Alex
  
  
  
  Old post:
  
  Hi,
  I'm trying to make something that will parse html to bbcode.
  This is my test code atm:
  

  <?php
  function myparse($data){
  $data = htmlspecialchars_decode($data);
  $data = eregi_replace('<a href="(([[:alpha:]]+://[^<>[:space:]]+[[:alnum:]/]))">','[url=\\0]',$data);
  $data = htmlspecialchars($data);
  return $data;
  
  }
  echo myparse('<a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070527/ap_en_mo/france_cannes_awards">');
  ?>

  
  Now this just prints
  

  [url=<a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070527/ap_en_mo/france_cannes_awards">]

  
  I'd like it to print:
  
  

  [url=http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070527/ap_en_mo/france_cannes_awards]

  
  Help is appreciated
  Thanks
  Alex

 

[Peter]

You had a mistake in that the result within the brackets was 2nd in the array so had an index of 1 (arrays are zero based). Also I notice you had the main part of the regular expression in 2 sets of brackets which made no difference to the outcome so I removed 1 set.

<?php
function myparse($data){
$data = htmlspecialchars_decode($data);
$data = eregi_replace('<a href="([[:alpha:]]+://[^<>[:space:]]+[[:alnum:]/])">','[url=\\1]',$data);
$data = htmlspecialchars($data);
return $data;

}
echo myparse('<a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070527/ap_en_mo/france_cannes_awards">');
?>

 

[Alex.]

Thanks Pete,
I would give you rep but it doesn't like me giving you it

I'm having another little problem as well now with an image function:

$data = eregi_replace('<img src="(([[:alpha:]]+://[^<>[:space:]]+[[:alnum:]/]))"([^\.]+)>','[img]\\1[/img]',$data);

Nothing is changing with the output.
Any ideas?

edit- also, whats the pattern for any number / type of character?

 

[Alex.]

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