[SOLVED] Using preg_replace

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I'd like to inform i went on to make my own syntax hiliter, thought it was the best way to start off with regular expressions.

Problem i'm having...

$text = 'some part of some thing... """ comment in pyton """';

What i'd like to do is, take everything from """ to the next """ and change the color.

I have this:
echo preg_replace("[\"\"\"]", "<span style=\"color: blue\">\${0}</span>", $text);

But that just changes the """ to blue. not the text between them.


Also, is regexp even the best/right approach to syntax hiliting? Say i have a comment inside a comment. Would there be a way to let regexp know that it's mean to be ignored?

[Nicklas]

[code=php:0]echo preg_replace('/(""").*?\1/s', '<span style="color: blue">\\0</span>', $text);[/code]

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thank you