Question

I am looking to match a string like this:

[quote12445555=Me]Some \n Quote[/quote12445555]

And replace it with this:

<blockquote>Some \n Quote</blockquote>

I had regex for this as follows:

!\[quote(\d+)=(\w+)\](.*|\r\n|\n)\[\/quote(\d+)\]!

Replaced by:

<blockquote>$3</blockquote>

But it doesn’t seem to be working

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

This appears to work in my tests:

\[quote[0-9]+=[a-zA-Z0-9]+\]((.|\n)*)\[/quote[0-9]+\]

try changing: (.*|\r\n|\n) to (.|\r\n|\n)*

does the forward slash need to be escaped? \/

My replace string was: <blockquote>$1</blockquote>