For reason I won't go into, I have just found myself needing to replace a lot of anchor tags with square bracket format anchor tags, like so:
// from
<a href="#">link</a>
// to
[a href="#"]link[/a]
Obviously, we need to use RegEx here, and for future reference mainly for myself, here are the matching and replacing patterns:
// match
<a .*?href=['""](.+?)['""].*?>(.+?)</a>
// replace
[a href="$1"]$2[/a]
May as well put in the reverse as well:
// match
\[a .*?href=['""](.+?)['""].*?\](.+?)\[/a\]
// replace
<a href="$1">$2</a>
And then if you're doing this in C#, just use this method:
string Regex.Replace(string input, string match, string replace)
There we go, saved myself about a year of tedious work!
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