Help with Surrounding Links

[Jam]

Hi,

I have files that look something like this :

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<a href="http://www.example.com">example</a>

<a href="http://www.example.com">example</a>

And they need to be changed to this :

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$advarray[] = '<a href="http://www.example.com">example</a>';

$advarray[] = '<a href="http://www.example.com">example</a>';

So it's just a matter of appending and prepending everything between <a and /a>

In all cases there is only one link on each line, in case that matters.

I've tried following lots of examples from the documentation and the forum, but I must be missing something because every time I use \1 or $0 or $1 in the replace text, it results in actually printing \1 or $0 or $1 instead of the original text...

Thanks,
Jam

[ben_josephs]

Select Replacement format:

Find what: <a .*?</a>
Replace with: $advarray[] = '$0';

[X] Regular expression
[X] Replacement format

[Jam]

Wow, that was an amazingly quick reply, and it works perfectly.

ben_josephs, you are much appreciated.

Thanks!