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Originally posted by WDZ
If I remove all the "&" characters after parsing the BBCode, how will you post "Testing & Trashing," or how will the board output < or >? Even if that problem is bypassed, there are other problems... in order to detect if a smilie code has a "&" in front of it, regular expressions would have to be used, and there's like 150 different codes that have to be checked... some people have 50 posts per page... you get the idea. :-/
you don't need to check each tag as i said, a regex that focuses on [&(*) and outputs [(*)
(*) means (*) as regular expression. so if i wrote [&offtopic] it would still appear [offtopic]
Get the idea now?
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