Finding and updating text between parentheses with PHP4

[watershed]

In PHP4, how would I go about finding *every* instance of text (max of 14 characters) in a string that is placed within parentheses? And then loop through each instance and update the string accordingly.

Here's an example:

$myString = "Google's (GOOG) YouTube, Microsoft (MSFT) MSNBC and Viacom (VIA)";

The idea would be to take each stock symbol and insert a link like:

(<a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=goog">GOOG</a>)

...and then to do the same thing for the other symbols.

Any pointers would be appreciated.

[ronverdonk]

Try this one. You can adapt it yourself to remove the parentheses from the result array.
[php]
<?php
$text = "Google's (GOOG) YouTube, Microsoft (MSFT) MSNBC and Viacom (VIA)";
$pattern = '(\((?:[^\(\)]+(?:"[^"]*"|\'[^\']*\')?)+\))';
preg_match_all($pattern, $text, $snip);
echo '<pre>'; print_r($snip);
?>[/php]

Ronald :cool: