[SOLVED] Regex Outter Search

[jaymc]

I have some regex to create a quote function for a forum. Its works pretty much like this

 

Search for <quote> Check for ending </quote>

 

replace the quote tags with html and get what ever was inbetween the tags as the content

 

So

 

<quote>Hello</quote>

 

Would come out like this

 

<a span="color:#ff0000">Hello</span>

 

That works fine, however, what happens if someone quotes a post which already has a quote in it. You will get this

 

 

 

<quote><quote>Hello</quote></quote>

 

 

Hence it will see the first <quote> tag and find the first </quote>, leaving you with this

 

 

<a span="color:#ff0000"><quote>Hello</span></quote>

 

 

I kinda need it to start from the first chars of the string when checking for <quote>

Then, check for </quote> starting from the very last char working inwards

 

I hope I explained that well enough, how can I do this !!

[effigy]

See this post.

[jaymc]

Cheers