preg_replace 2

[stasJohn]

I'm not sure if this is the place to ask... it is php related though.

I'm trying to come up with a regular expression. Here's the scenario. I'm pulling addresses from an xml file.

<addressList>
  <thisIsAnAddress>
  blah blah
  blah blah blah
  </thisIsAnAddress>
  ...
</addressList>

Using xsl, I transform it to...

<address>
blah blah
blah blah blah
</address>

Of course, when displayed on the screen, both lines appear as one.

So...

$output = [xsl transformation]
//convert "\n" in <address> tags to <br />
print $output

How do I, using a regular expression, find
"<address>[bunch of text]</address>"
and convert the "\n" to "<br />"s???

Thanks in advance!

 

[stasJohn]

aha Success!!!

Yeah, I realized it was stripping the address tags, but threw in some extra parenthesis to fix that.

Here's the final snippet...

$patterns = '/(<address>\n)([^<]+)\n\s*(<\/address>)/e';
$replacement = "'\\1' . nl2br('\\2') . '\n' . '\\3'";	
echo preg_replace($patterns,$replacement,$html);

Nice and elegant.

Thanks to the both of you for the help. Regular expressions are strange to get a handle on, but I think I'm starting to figure them out. Thanks again. Appreciate it!!

 

[Lrnmore]

DRJ478,

Thanks, for tuning it up.

Runs much better and doesn't smoke as much.

-Mark