Do you have a finite list of ways that this information could be formatted?
For instance, do you allow spaces before and after the dash (-) or maybe
returns between each list item? In other words, is the information that you
receive predictable?
If it is predictable, I would just go through the list one line at a time
and output it into a new string with the appropriate markup.
"ibiza" <lambertb@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> I have a question which I have no ideal of the answer...I am currently
> working on a web application and at some time, I have a string
> representing a short text. This could be a simple example :
>
> "This is my list :\n\r-list item 1\n\r-list item 2\n\r-list item
> 3\n\r\n\rThis was a great list."
>
> Let's say this outputs like that :
> -------------------------------------------
> This is my list :
> -list item 1
> -list item 2
> -list item 3
>
> This was a great list.
> -------------------------------------------
>
> Would it be simple with regular expression to transform the list formed
> of hyphens("-") to an HTML unordered list? I mean that the preceding
> example would rather output as :
> -------------------------------------------
> This is my list :
> <ul><li>list item 1</li>
> <li>list item 2</li>
> <li>list item 3</li></ul>
>
> This was a great list.
> -------------------------------------------
>
> I have some experience with regular expression but have not a clue on
> how to do this...I also see some problems as if the string starts with
> an hyphen, as it would also need to transform correctly, event if it
> doesn't have the /n/r before the hyphen("-").
> e.g. "-list item 1/n/r- list item 2" should output as :
> -------------------------------------------
> <ul><li>list item 1</li>
> <li>list item 2</li><ul>
> -------------------------------------------
>
> And what about if there are two lists separated by some carriage
> returns?...As you can see, I really don't know where to start with this
> problem. :/
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> ibiza
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