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Re: help with regular expressions

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On 04/06/2011 17:55, Innerlab wrote:
> Hello.  I'm trying to parse pages from wikipedia. Although I'm not
> that good with PHP,  such scripts are more available on the web than -
> lets say- ASP/ VBscript.
>
> I have a PHP script that returns links within wikipedia pages as:
>
> [[ Name_of_URL ]]
>
> So, with regex I must parse the above to construct links like:
>
> <a href="http://URL">Name_of_URL</a>
>
> I know the preg_replace( ) function is the one to use, but honestly, I
> cannot figure out what regex I must use.
>
> I'd appreciate any guidance on this matter.

Can you give an actual example of a string that you might want to 
process, and of what you want it converted to?

Nick
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Nick Wedd
nick@maproom.co.uk

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help with regular expressions Innerlab <ewar007@gmail.com> - 2011-06-04 09:55 -0700
  Re: help with regular expressions Innerlab <ewar007@gmail.com> - 2011-06-04 10:01 -0700
  Re: help with regular expressions jeff <mung_me@att.net> - 2011-06-04 18:14 -0400
  Re: help with regular expressions Nick Wedd <nick@maproom.co.uk> - 2011-06-06 15:06 +0100

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