Posted by Jochem Maas on 11/24/05 19:30

Kristen G. Thorson wrote:
> I am a regex retard.

good for you ;-)
why not take the easy route and simply strip out all HTML comments
(and whatever maybe inside them) from the string(s) before you do the
search for the 'bbcode'?

>
> I am trying to pull keywords out of this crazy bbcode-like file, but
> only for bbcode-like code NOT enclosed in HTML comments. I currently
> have managed to create this regex:
>
> '/(?<!<!--)\[!(\w+)::.*!\](?!-->)/U'
>
> Which matches
>
> [!keyword::crazy bbcode!]
>
> and not
>
> <!--[!keyword::crazy bbcode!]-->



>
> That's a step in the right direction. But it includes in the match
> keywords within phrases like this:
>
> <!-- A sentence including some [!keyword::crazy bbcode!]. -->
>
> I want to ignore all bbcode within HTML quotes. How do I do this?
>
>
> thanks
>
> kgt
>

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