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  3. December 2006

matching tags in text

I've written some code which has some bugs. I think I need to scrap the whole thing and start over with a fresh approach. I need to replace tags in a string with another string. So I'm looking for ideas on the best ways to accomplish this. Here's an example of what the original string might look like: 

This string is <tag 1>an example string</tag 1> that I made up.
My code needs to replace <tag 1> with some string (passed to it is beginstring) and replace </tag 1> with some string (passed as endstring). I need to catch errors like opening tags that don't have closing tags and opening tags that occur before a previous opening tag's matching end tag. I'm almost certain this is something that lots of RPG programmers have done before. My code sucks. How do you do it? 

James Rich

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