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  1. <?php
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  3. //search to replace
  4. $text = '[b]this will be bold[/b] but this will be not.';
  5. $search = array('~\[([^]]+)\]([^][]*)\[/\1\]~');
  6. //replace with
  7. $replace = array('<$1>$2</$1>');
  8. echo preg_replace($search, $replace, $text);
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<b>this will be bold</b> but this will be not.
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PHP (php 7.3.5)
created:
11 years ago
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