[SOLVED] Extracting word out of a string

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Okay. This may be hard to explain, expecially at 7am with no sleep.

 

I have a comments section on this site, where users can quote other users.

 

i'm using bbcode for this, so

 

something

 

would ideally be replaced with

 

<blockquote>username said:  something </blockquote>

 

 

What I have now is this

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$str = "

";

$m = preg_replace("/\

[^\]]{1' date='}\']/", "<blockquote>", $str);

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This returns $m as

into <blockquote>.

 

Question:

 

How can i extract username (in this case, play) out of that string?

 

if it possible to insert the match into the replacement? example:

 

$m = preg_match("/\

[^\]]{1' date='}\']/", "<blockquote>insert 'play' here", $str);

 

 

 

 

[ignace]

Save yourself the trouble and use:

 

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/book.bbcode.php

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christ my code showed up full of quotes... completely forgot this forum use the same bbcode syntax.

 

Thanks ignace, will look.