Question

This should be pretty straightforward I would think.

I have this string:

[quote=Joe Johnson|1]Hi![/quote]

Which should be replaced with something like

<div class="quote">Hi!<div><a href="users/details/1">JoeJohnson</a></div></div>

I’m pretty shure this is not going very well. So far I have this:

Regex regexQuote = new Regex(@"\[quote\=(.*?)\|(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/quote\]");

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Any help appreciated!

Answer 1

Try this:

string pattern = @"\[quote=(.*?)\|(\d+)\]([\s\S]*?)\[/quote\]";
string replacement = 
  @"<div class=""quote"">$3<div><a href=""users/details/$2"">$1</a></div></div>";

Console.WriteLine(
    Regex.Replace(input, pattern, replacement));