I have a really simple Javascript BBCode Parser for client-side live preview (don't want to use Ajax for that). The problem ist, this parser only recognizes the first list element:
function bbcode_parser(str) {
search = new Array(
/\[b\](.*?)\[\/b\]/,
/\[i\](.*?)\[\/i\]/,
/\[img\](.*?)\[\/img\]/,
/\[url\="?(.*?)"?\](.*?)\[\/url\]/,
/\[quote](.*?)\[\/quote\]/,
/\[list\=(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/list\]/i,
/\[list\]([\s\S]*?)\[\/list\]/i,
/\[\*\]\s?(.*?)\n/);
replace = new Array(
"<strong>$1</strong>",
"<em>$1</em>",
"<img src=\"$1\" alt=\"An image\">",
"<a href=\"$1\">$2</a>",
"<blockquote>$1</blockquote>",
"<ol>$2</ol>",
"<ul>$1</ul>",
"<li>$1</li>");
for (i = 0; i < search.length; i++) {
str = str.replace(search[i], replace[i]);
}
return str;}
[list]
[*] adfasdfdf
[*] asdfadsf
[*] asdfadss
[/list]
only the first element is converted to a HTML List element, the rest stays as BBCode:
adfasdfdf
[*] asdfadsf
[*] asdfadss
I tried playing around with "\s", "\S" and "\n" but I'm mostly used to PHP Regex and totally new to Javascript Regex. Any suggestions?
