HTML to BBcode

[batori]

Hi guys,

I was wondering if any of you know if there is a vb6 code available .. like this one :

http://www.stumbleupon.com/toolbar/#topic=Forums&url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.seabreezecomputers.com%252Fhtml2bbcode%252F

I think its pretty tricky

Any ideas on how to start?

Cheers

[Siddharth Rout]

Suggestion: Right Click on that web page and click on view source. Press Ctrl+F and type"function convert()" in that. Here you will see the code to convert html to bbcode. understand the logic and implement it in vb

[Jim Davis]

IT is aint complicated at all, simply uses some instr() (vb6 equialent) to find tags, then it simply replaces them by the predefined ways.

'JS
pos = fonttext.indexOf("<FONT", pos);

'VB6
Dim Pos as Long
pos = InStr(pos, fonttext, "<FONT", vbTextCompare)

You can use it to understand how it works, then simply port it to vb6 if you wish.

[batori]

Thanks for replying guys...

Im gonna star to test thaat now!

Thanks!


I'll let you know how i did

[batori]

well i tried now to use the Replace function..that seems good too...but stilli find it kinda tricky to do this :

<img src="url"

so i can replace <img src to [img] but i want to replace that particular " to [/img]

and if i replace all " with [/img] i wont get far :S

[Jim Davis]

Thats why you have to follow the js code, and implement the Instr(), that is simply walks thru each tags, so you can find out what is the closing tag is needed, because you already know what was the previous tag that opened.


If PrevTag = 1 Then 'IMG was
AddTag "[/img]"
ElseIf PrevTag = 2 Then 'A link
AddTag "[/url]"
ElseIf ...

and so on..

[batori]

I got the entire code...java

http://www.seabreezecomputers.com/html2bbcode/

I dont get this:

bbcodetext = bbcodetext.replace(/ BORDER=[^\'\">]*[\'\">]/gi, "");

Its kinda hard to translate to vb hmmm

[Jim Davis]

bbcodetext is a string, and bbcodetext.replace() executes a replace function by using the string. in vb6 :

bbcodetext = replace$(bbcodetext,...)

The other part, is seems to me RegExp, that i not use at all, however there is support for regexp in vb6 by using a specific microsoft component.

An example, how to create a function that accepts pattern, and does some search/matchings. http://www.vbforums.com/showpost.php...23&postcount=5
Another example for regexp search. http://www.vbforums.com/showpost.php...37&postcount=5

With by applying some modifications, you can do replaces based on regexp.

Here is a reference, to understand javascript regexp syntax: http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_obj_regexp.asp