Need Regular Expressions Help

arcticfire · 03-28-2008, 02:22 AM

Hey all. First post.

Anyway, I've been working on this for quite a while with two other people and we just can't figure it out.

We're trying to use regexp to remove the span tags from the following bit of html code. The outcome will be that users to our IPB forum will be able to turn off colors if they want.

Here is an example post.

HTML Code:

Regular text<br><br><!--coloro:#FF0000--><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><!--/coloro-->Colored Text<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc--> and more <!--coloro:#0000FF--><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><!--/coloro-->Colored Text<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc--><br><br>Some <img src="style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align: middle;" emoid=":lol:" alt="laugh.gif" border="0"> Cool  <img src="style_emoticons/default/wink.gif" style="vertical-align: middle;" emoid=";)" alt="wink.gif" border="0"> Smilies <img src="style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align: middle;" emoid=":unsure:" alt="unsure.gif" border="0"> <br><br><!--sizeo:6--><span style="font-size: 24pt; line-height: 100%;"><!--/sizeo-->Bigger<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--><br><br><!--fonto:Impact--><span style="font-family: Impact;"><!--/fonto-->Different<!--fontc--></span>

Using regular expressions, we hope to take the code off of this:

HTML Code:

<!--coloro:#FF0000--><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><!--/coloro-->Colored Text<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc--> and more <!--coloro:#0000FF--><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><!--/coloro-->Colored Text<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc-->

to make it this:

HTML Code:

Colored Text and more Colored text

Basically, we need the right regex to remove all between the  and <!--/colorc> tags.

Can anybody help?