From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2006-08-20T01:10:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Match all occurance of double quotes in a string

Patrick Spence wrote:
> I have a string something like this...
> "Now is the time for all good men to blah, blah..." - Origin unknown
> 
> I want to convert it to this...
> [i]Now is the time for all good men to blah, blah...[/i] - Origin 
> unknown
> 
> With the first double quote converted to "[i]" and the second to "[/i]". 
> The occurance of the 1st double quote may or may not be at the beginning 
> of the string.
> 
> 
Rather simplistic, but should work:

string.sub(/"([^"]*)"/, '[i]\1[/i]')

-- 
Alex