Regex BBCode to WYSIWYG RichText Format

[AceInfinity]

I seen a request by somebody else on another forum for such a thing, someone else posted code that only worked for one replacement, and did not remove the bbcode tags. Here's an example that i've created from this idea to completely format all tags within a full bit of text, and remove the bbcode:

foreach (Match match in Regex.Matches(richTextBox1.Text, @"\[b\](.*?)\[/b\]", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase).OfType<Match>().Reverse())
{
	richTextBox1.Select(match.Index, match.Length);
	Console.WriteLine(match.Groups[0]);
	richTextBox1.SelectionFont = new Font("Tahoma", 9, FontStyle.Bold);
	richTextBox1.SelectedText = match.Groups[1].Value;
}

Example:

 

[Corrine]

That reminds me of a bookmark that I had for stripping all HTML/Word formatting from text. It figures that I cannot find it now. The only one I can locate is http://alphabetizer.flap.tv/ which has the option to ignore reordering and make other changes to the text.

 

[AceInfinity]

Yes, there's lots of cool online tools and generators out there for a limitless number of things. Cool what you can find on the internet. Thanks for sharing that Corrine :)

~Ace

 

[Corrine]

Finding on the Internet is simple. Creating something like the BBCode stripper is another thing quite entirely. :thumbsup2:

 

[AceInfinity]

I could create a reverse of what the above code does as well, Removing the formatting, or even removing BBcode from unformatted text is pretty simple :)