regex

[the_bishop]

I was looking through some PHP code I'd written a while ago (specifically a CMS with an extensive tag engine), and I came across a regular expression that reduced 60~ lines of PHP loops, conditionals, etc. to one line.

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O rly

[asteriskk]

What do we win?

[the_new_lemon]

The regex is looking for an opening paragraph tag with css attribute, alphanumeric text, and a closing paragraph tag. What I don't quite understand is that the opening tag has a closing forward slash, like this:
. This implies that your function processes XHTML markup, but as far as I know paragraph tags in XHTML don't need the closing slash.

I await my prize.

WRONG

[the_bishop]

It's looking for special tags that are to be parsed out and replaced at runtime.

An example would be:

Re: WRONG

[the_new_lemon]

Well, still close enough for a prize, I'd say!