Help with search

I was wondering if there was an easy way to do this. I need to search a image tags in a bb post. The tags can be [ img] or < img> (since I dont want vB to try and do something with it I put a space).

Right now I have a loop to find the [ img] start and ending tags. It works great using strpos. But I really dont want to have to do this long loop again to find the start and end < img> tags. So I was wondering if anyone had any idea on how I can do this in one loop. Like with something simular to preg_match or something.

well, what do you want to do with these tags when you found them?

if want to replace them with something else, you can use preg_replace or (if its a more complex replacement) preg_replace_callback.

(or the other regexp functions, if don't like the preg_* syntax)

Code:

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$string = "Hello [ img]you.jpg[/ img] !";

echo preg_replace( '@\[ img\](.*)\[/ img\]@', '<img src="$1"/>', $string );

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this echoes Hello <img src="you.jpg"> !