Ok, I just found some information on preg_replace command and regular expressions, wich I had at one time studied in perl, and should be able to re-familiarize myself with in php.
If I have any difficulties, I'll post here. I'm surprised there isn't a section under php on your site regarding regex.
Edit:
Ok, this is not gonna be easy. I started to create some patterns in regex to check against, but realized I was deleting a lot of the text without knowing it.
The difficult part is ignoring anything on a line after a * symbol.
What I want to do is turn this:
Quote:
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(0:7) When somebody moves into position (24,43),
(1:4) and they bump into a Furre,
(3:4) within the rectangle (%position1) - (%position2),
(4:1) only where the floor is type 26,
(5:4) place object type @3.
(5:200) emit message {bunch of text} to whoever set off the trigger.
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Into this:
Quote:
* This comment brought to you by McDonalds. Have you had your break today?
(0:7) When somebody moves into position (24,43),
(1:4) and they bump into a Furre,
(3:4) within the rectangle (%position1) - (%position2),
(4:1) only where the floor is type 26,
(5:4) place object type @3.
(5:200) emit message {bunch of text} to whoever set off the trigger.
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I was trying to use
/^[^\*]*\(([0-5]):([0-9]+)\)/im
but suddenly realized anything before the (x:xx) would be deleted in the proccess because it matched the beginning of the string.
Is there any easier way to do this?