Regular Expression to convert from PHP to C#
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Good to know. :) Regexs are good fun, but can be a pain in the a**e sometimes!! :rolleyes:
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Good to know. :) Regexs are good fun, but can be a pain in the a**e sometimes!! :rolleyes:
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I have this left :-O $content = preg_replace('#[color=([^-]+)-(.*)[/color]#Uis', '$2', $content); This is simply to parse bbcode color tag, e.g. [color=red]text[/color] Please help.
Hi
using System;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;public class Testy
{
public static void Main()
{
string input="This is a [color=red]red[/color] color and this is a [color=blue]blue[/color] color.";
string regex=@"\[color=[^\]]*?\](.*?)\[/color\]";string output=Regex.Replace(input,regex,"$1"); Console.WriteLine(output); }}
There was a couple of things wrong with the regex. The original was greedy, and is now lazy. Also some escaping of ']' and '[' was needed. Graham -- modified at 14:41 Monday 26th June, 2006
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Hi
using System;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;public class Testy
{
public static void Main()
{
string input="This is a [color=red]red[/color] color and this is a [color=blue]blue[/color] color.";
string regex=@"\[color=[^\]]*?\](.*?)\[/color\]";string output=Regex.Replace(input,regex,"$1"); Console.WriteLine(output); }}
There was a couple of things wrong with the regex. The original was greedy, and is now lazy. Also some escaping of ']' and '[' was needed. Graham -- modified at 14:41 Monday 26th June, 2006
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Thanks a lot but what if I want to change the brakets type, say: -color=red- text text -color!- How can I parse it to: text text
string regex=@"\[color=([^\]]*?)\](.*?)\[/color\]";
string replace=@"<color=$1>$2</color>";string output=Regex.Replace(input,regex,replace);
If you are intending to place bbcode for a certain number of tags, it might be easier to use a generic regex. -- modified at 17:58 Monday 26th June, 2006
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string regex=@"\[color=([^\]]*?)\](.*?)\[/color\]";
string replace=@"<color=$1>$2</color>";string output=Regex.Replace(input,regex,replace);
If you are intending to place bbcode for a certain number of tags, it might be easier to use a generic regex. -- modified at 17:58 Monday 26th June, 2006
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Many thanks, It worked, but not when it's nested: text text text text [color=red]hello [color=green]ok[/color] test ok[/color] Is there an easy solution for this?
The easy way would be to treat the opening and closing tags independently of each other.
using System;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;public class Testy
{
public static void Main()
{
string input="This is a [color=red]red sentence with [color=blue]some blue[/color] words[/color].";// Replace open color tag input=Regex.Replace(input,@"\\\[color=(\[^\\\]\]\*?)\\\]","<color=$1>"); // Replace close color tag input=Regex.Replace(input,@"\\\[/color\\\]","</color>"); Console.WriteLine(input); }}
The hard way would involve some complex regexs. Will try to come up with something. Graham. [Edit] Hmmm. It appears that this might be pretty difficult. The problem is that regexs by definition match up by looking forward. To look for nested tags, requires searching the text in tree-wise fashion. To do this in linear text requires requires bilaterial searching, looking forward from the left at the same time looking backwards from the right. Problem is that regexes are virtually impossible to do proper backwards searching. It may be possible to achieve the same effect with some creative code along side regexs. -- modified at 19:13 Monday 26th June, 2006
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The easy way would be to treat the opening and closing tags independently of each other.
using System;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;public class Testy
{
public static void Main()
{
string input="This is a [color=red]red sentence with [color=blue]some blue[/color] words[/color].";// Replace open color tag input=Regex.Replace(input,@"\\\[color=(\[^\\\]\]\*?)\\\]","<color=$1>"); // Replace close color tag input=Regex.Replace(input,@"\\\[/color\\\]","</color>"); Console.WriteLine(input); }}
The hard way would involve some complex regexs. Will try to come up with something. Graham. [Edit] Hmmm. It appears that this might be pretty difficult. The problem is that regexs by definition match up by looking forward. To look for nested tags, requires searching the text in tree-wise fashion. To do this in linear text requires requires bilaterial searching, looking forward from the left at the same time looking backwards from the right. Problem is that regexes are virtually impossible to do proper backwards searching. It may be possible to achieve the same effect with some creative code along side regexs. -- modified at 19:13 Monday 26th June, 2006
Worked, again :) Which one is better for the closing tab in your opinion: This: output = input.Replace("[/color]", ""); Or this: input=Regex.Replace(input,@"\[/color\]",""); The first one is faster right? I PHP normal function is faster than regular expression, is it the samething in C#? -- modified at 19:16 Monday 26th June, 2006
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Worked, again :) Which one is better for the closing tab in your opinion: This: output = input.Replace("[/color]", ""); Or this: input=Regex.Replace(input,@"\[/color\]",""); The first one is faster right? I PHP normal function is faster than regular expression, is it the samething in C#? -- modified at 19:16 Monday 26th June, 2006
They both do the same job. The first it a straight substitution, the second a regex. The first would be marginally faster to perform. Have you read my edit on the harder solution?
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They both do the same job. The first it a straight substitution, the second a regex. The first would be marginally faster to perform. Have you read my edit on the harder solution?
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I just did. Anyway, the easy method is more than enough for me. I really appreciate your help.
That's okay. That's my alotment of regexs used up for the night! :cool: