Convert asterisk list to html list

[The Little Guy]

I have a string of text That could look like this:

 

I am a paragraph

 * I am a list item
 * I am another list item
 * I am a third list item

I am another paragraph

 

What I would like to do, is convert the asterisk lines to an un-ordered list, The format would be:

 

space asterisk space line of text

 

What kind of regexp would be needed for something like that?

Edited January 15, 2013 by The Little Guy

[The Little Guy]

Hmm... Looks like I got it:

 

val = val.replace(/^ \* (.+?)(\n|$)/gm, "<li>$1</li>");
val = val.replace(/(<li>.+<\/li>)/igm, "<ul>$1</ul>");

 

Any suggestions?

Edited January 15, 2013 by The Little Guy

[nogray]

You can just add the ul tags in the first line of code

val = '<ul>'+val.replace(/^ \* (.+?)(\n|$)/gm, "<li>$1</li>")+'</ul>';