Regular Expressions question

good with regex? help me please :)

[mnet1]

I've got a regex question, hopefully somebody can help :)

Basically, I want to convert a file with lines like this "<br>text_text:" to the following... "<br>Text Text:"

In simple terms, I need to find everything between "<br>" and ":" on all lines and replace it with a capitalised, underscore-free version of itelf.

Anybody know what preg_replace or similar I'd need to use to accomplish this?

[vincevincevince]

$text=preg_replace("/\<br\>([^:])*:/","<br>".ucwords($1).":",$text)

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[mnet1]

edit: actually, i thought i knew what the problem with that statement was, but now i'm not sure. i just cant get it to work out at this point. will keep coding away, thanks again for your help :o)

[vincevincevince]

sorry, forgot preg_replace wouldn't dynamically calculate replacements...

the below will work (assuming your start string is $text

$temp=$text;
while (preg_match("/\<br\>([^:]*):/",$temp,$matches))
{
$text=str_replace($matches[1],ucwords(str_replace("_"," ",$matches[1])),$text);
$temp=substr($temp,strlen($matches[1])+5);
}

[mnet1]

Wow. What can I say!

It's no wonder I couldn't get it to work, I was working on such a simple level. That code is great and works without any trouble :)

Thanks very much, you've saved me a lot of headaches!