[Solar-talk] Solar_Markdown_Plugin & preg_replace

[Paul M Jones]

On Apr 30, 2007, at 9:39 AM, Rodrigo Moraes wrote:

> Hey,
> Maybe a regexp expert can give me a help. I have a legacy code which
> parses inline images using the a syntax like the following:
>
> <%image(image_file.jpg|width|height|alt text)%>
>
> Now I would like to use a Solar_Markdown_Plugin to parse it and start
> using only Solar_Markdown for text parsing. I'm almost there. The
> problem is to include < and > in the regexp.
>
> The best I could get was this:
>
>         $text = preg_replace_callback('{
>             (                                   # wrap whole match  
> in $1
>               %image\(
>                 (.*?)                           # href = $2
>               \|
>                 (.*?)                           # width = $3
>               \|
>                 (.*?)                           # height = $4
>               \|
>                 (.*?)                           # title = $5
>               \)%
>             )
>             }xs',
>             array($this, '_parseInline'),
>             $text
>         );
>
> Then for <%image(file.jpg|307|783|some text)%>, I get:
> $1 = %image(file.jpg|307|783|some text)%
> $2 = file.jpg
> $3 = 307
> $4 = 783
> $5 = some text
>
> So, I couldn't set up a regexp to also include < and > in the
> replacement. :-| Can anybody help?

Maybe try these?  (Note the \< and \> at the beginning and end.)

     \<\%image\(    # for the opening tag

     \)\%\>         # for the closing tag

Hope this helps.


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