How to restore broken lines in links in my PHP editor?

[djr33]

If it's relying on new lines for paragraphs, then would it also have <a> tags for links? Wouldn't it be one or the other?

[bernie1227]

http://jsfiddle.net/bernie1227/Sxs3C/14/

[traq]

If it's relying on new lines for paragraphs, then would it also have <a> tags for links? Wouldn't it be one or the other?

Markdown generally allows HTML. Specific implementations may differ.

http://jsfiddle.net/bernie1227/Sxs3C/14/

http://jsfiddle.net/traq/vG3U6/

[bernie1227]

You really didn't need a jsfiddle to ask me that traq:
(text.split("<").length - 1) tells us how many opening tags if you want to know how many there are.

[qwikad.com]

I don't know if I can nudge some of you in the right direction but is there something that can go like this?

text = text.replace('/<([^<>]+)>/g','"<" ...... ">"');

Where the dots are we need to tell that only new lines between the tags must be stripped...

Or am I totally off?

[bernie1227]

You could have a try with something along the lines of:

text.replace(/(<\S+)\n*(\S+>)/g, "$1$2");

[traq]

http://jsfiddle.net/traq/kRsND/

Actually didn't end up using a look-ahead (my idea required a look-behind also, which javascript apparently doesn't implement ).

I could only get it to work by putting it in a loop, though. I'm not sure why the g modifier isn't having the effect I expect (probably, I misunderstand what regex means by "global"). Removing it has no effect on the result.

for reference, here's the regex I'm using:

/(<[^>]*)\n+([^>]*>)/g

// explanation:

(         // start $1
   <      // opening bracket
   [^>]*  // anything not a closing bracket
)         // end first match
\n+       // one or more newlines
(         // start $2
   [^>]*  // anything not a closing bracket
   >      // closing bracket
)         // end $2

// then I just replaced the *whole* match with only $1 and $2.

Edit:

You could have a try with something along the lines of:

text.replace(/(<\S+)\n*(\S+>)/g, "$1$2");

...beat by 3 minutes.

[traq]

fixed. http://jsfiddle.net/traq/kRsND/

var regex = /(<[^>\n]*)\s+([^>\n]*>)/g;
/*

(           // start $1
   <        // opening bracket
   [^>\n]*  // anything not a closing bracket *or* a newline
)           // end $1
\s+         // one or more *whitespace* (including newlines)
(           // start $2
   [^>\n]*  // anything not a closing bracket *or* a newline
   >        // closing bracket
)           // end $2

*/

text = text.replace( regex,'$1 $2' );
// note the single non-breaking space between $1 and $2

[qwikad.com]

This has fixed it. Wow. Thanks!

I will still need to test it to find out whether or not it works with all sorts of HTML banner ads / HTML codes without messing something up, but as of now it works perfect.

fixed. http://jsfiddle.net/traq/kRsND/

var regex = /(<[^>\n]*)\s+([^>\n]*>)/g;
/*

(           // start $1
   <        // opening bracket
   [^>\n]*  // anything not a closing bracket *or* a newline
)           // end $1
\s+         // one or more *whitespace* (including newlines)
(           // start $2
   [^>\n]*  // anything not a closing bracket *or* a newline
   >        // closing bracket
)           // end $2

*/

text = text.replace( regex,'$1 $2' );
// note the single non-breaking space between $1 and $2

[traq]

glad we could help.

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