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var rightText = RegExp.$3 - Need leftText

Hello All;

In my site that Hielo helped me in.
It is JavaScript based, and this function

var rightText = RegExp.$3

case '[url': 
var temp=attributes.split('|');
return '<a href="'+temp[0]+'" title="'+temp[1]+'" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">'+temp[1]+'</a>&#171;'+rightText;

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Of which allows for text on the right side.
I need it to allow text on the left as well.

Basically.

hello, this is a link [url:www.example.com|Example] that you can click on.

Right now, it will not display as a link, as there is text on the left side, it will only display the actually code.
So, what I am needing, is the leftText to be added in.

Any help on this will be great.
Carrzkiss

Scott Fell

Here it is in vbs

<%
str="hello, this is a link [url:www.example.com|Example] that you can click on."
leftside=mid(str,instr(1,str,"www",1),instr(1,str,"|",1)-instr(1,str,"www",1) )
rightside=mid(str,instr(1,str,"|",1)+1,instr(1,str,"]",1)-1-instr(1,str,"|",1) )
response.write leftside
response.write "|"&rightside
%>

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hielo

If I remember correctly, there were two functions:
process and bbFilter. You need to call proccess passing bbFilter as the the second argument:

Response.Write( process(inputStr, bbFilter) )

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It sounds like you are simply calling it as:

Response.Write( process(inputStr) )

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Wayne Barron

ASKER

Hielo.
I am doing it as the 1st one, exactly.
It has been like that since the code was first done.

padas, the whole page is done in JavaScript, I will be unable to change it to vbscript.
Though that is my comfort zone, I cannot change it now.
Maybe in the future, I can look at a possible convert.

Wayne Barron

ASKER

Also, to Hielo.
If I do the [[info|Information Here]]
This works no matter where it is located at, in the middle of text, before, after, works perfectly.

It is only the code like what I supplied above, that does not work in the middle, or the end, only the beginning.

hielo

Can you provide a sample input string?

Wayne Barron

ASKER

As sample is as I provided above.
Check out [url:www.eperts-exchange.com|Eperts Exchange] for your project needs and help

It does not matter rather there is 1 or many url's on the same line of not, they will not work if there is text on the "LEFT" side of the tag.

Scott Fell

Very similar in js http://jsfiddle.net/ECxXF/

var str = "hello, this is a link [url:www.example.com|Example] that you can click on.";

var left1=str.indexOf('[')+5;
var left2=str.indexOf('|');
var right1=str.indexOf('|')+1;
var right2=str.indexOf(']');

document.write  (str.substring(left1,left2));
document.write ("<br>");
document.write  (str.substring(right1,right2));

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Wayne Barron

ASKER

Just tested it in the demo page, and now on my working testing server,
And it works like a champ.

Thanks a bunch Hielo!!
You Rock!!!