I am using this (http://coursesweb.net/javascript/convert-bbcode-html-javascript_cs) as my script for parsing BBCode. I have extended the BBCodes that it can process, however I am encountering a problem when a newline immediately follows an opening tag, e.g.
[code]
code....
[/code]
The problem does not occur if the code is 'inline'
[code]code....
[/code]`
The regex being used to match what's inside these tags is (.*?)
which I know does not match newlines. I have tried ([^\r\n])
to match newlines but this hasn't worked either.
I imagine it's a simple issue but I have little experience with regex so any help would be appreciated
EDIT: this is the full list of regex's I am using
var tokens = {
'URL' : '((?:(?:[a-z][a-z\\d+\\-.]*:\\/{2}(?:(?:[a-z0-9\\-._~\\!$&\'*+,;=:@|]+|%[\\dA-F]{2})+|[0-9.]+|\\[[a-z0-9.]+:[a-z0-9.]+:[a-z0-9.:]+\\])(?::\\d*)?(?:\\/(?:[a-z0-9\\-._~\\!$&\'*+,;=:@|]+|%[\\dA-F]{2})*)*(?:\\?(?:[a-z0-9\\-._~\\!$&\'*+,;=:@\\/?|]+|%[\\dA-F]{2})*)?(?:#(?:[a-z0-9\\-._~\\!$&\'*+,;=:@\\/?|]+|%[\\dA-F]{2})*)?)|(?:www\\.(?:[a-z0-9\\-._~\\!$&\'*+,;=:@|]+|%[\\dA-F]{2})+(?::\\d*)?(?:\\/(?:[a-z0-9\\-._~\\!$&\'*+,;=:@|]+|%[\\dA-F]{2})*)*(?:\\?(?:[a-z0-9\\-._~\\!$&\'*+,;=:@\\/?|]+|%[\\dA-F]{2})*)?(?:#(?:[a-z0-9\\-._~\\!$&\'*+,;=:@\\/?|]+|%[\\dA-F]{2})*)?)))',
'LINK' : '([a-z0-9\-\./]+[^"\' ]*)',
'EMAIL' : '((?:[\\w\!\#$\%\&\'\*\+\-\/\=\?\^\`{\|\}\~]+\.)*(?:[\\w\!\#$\%\'\*\+\-\/\=\?\^\`{\|\}\~]|&)+@(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:[a-z0-9]{1}[a-z0-9\-]{0,62}[a-z0-9]{1})|[a-z])\.)+[a-z]{2,6})|(?:\\d{1,3}\.){3}\\d{1,3}(?:\:\\d{1,5})?))',
'TEXT' : '(.*?)',
'SIMPLETEXT' : '([a-zA-Z0-9-+.,_ ]+)',
'INTTEXT' : '([a-zA-Z0-9-+,_. ]+)',
'IDENTIFIER' : '([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)',
'COLOR' : '([a-z]+|#[0-9abcdef]+)',
'NUMBER' : '([0-9]+)',
'ALL' : '([^\r\n])',
};
EDIT 2: Full JS for matching
var token_match = /{[A-Z_]+[0-9]*}/ig;
var _getRegEx = function(str) {
var matches = str.match(token_match);
var nrmatches = matches.length;
var i = 0;
var replacement = '';
if (nrmatches <= 0) {
return new RegExp(preg_quote(str), 'g'); // no tokens so return the escaped string
}
for(; i < nrmatches; i += 1) {
// Remove {, } and numbers from the token so it can match the
// keys in tokens
var token = matches[i].replace(/[{}0-9]/g, '');
if (tokens[token]) {
// Escape everything before the token
replacement += preg_quote(str.substr(0, str.indexOf(matches[i]))) + tokens[token];
// Remove everything before the end of the token so it can be used
// with the next token. Doing this so that parts can be escaped
str = str.substr(str.indexOf(matches[i]) + matches[i].length);
}
}
replacement += preg_quote(str);
return new RegExp(replacement, 'gi');
};
var _getTpls = function(str) {
var matches = str.match(token_match);
var nrmatches = matches.length;
var i = 0;
var replacement = '';
var positions = {};
var next_position = 0;
if (nrmatches <= 0) {
return str; // no tokens so return the string
}
for(; i < nrmatches; i += 1) {
// Remove {, } and numbers from the token so it can match the
// keys in tokens
var token = matches[i].replace(/[{}0-9]/g, '');
var position;
// figure out what $# to use ($1, $2)
if (positions[matches[i]]) {
position = positions[matches[i]];
} else {
// token doesn't have a position so increment the next position
// and record this token's position
next_position += 1;
position = next_position;
positions[matches[i]] = position;
}
if (tokens[token]) {
replacement += str.substr(0, str.indexOf(matches[i])) + '$' + position;
str = str.substr(str.indexOf(matches[i]) + matches[i].length);
}
}
replacement += str;
return replacement;
};
This does the trick for me: (updated this one too to avoid confusion)
\[code\]([\s\S]*?)\[\/code\]
See regexpal and enter the following:
[code]
code....
[/code]
[code]code.... [/code]
Update: Fixed the regex to the following and this works in the Chrome Console for me:
/\[code\]([\s\S]*?)\[\/code\]/g.exec("[code]hello world \n[/code]")