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Old 02-02-2011, 09:13 AM   #10
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Just an update.

I was able to come up with a regex that catches everything inside the underscores like _foo_ and replaces it with italicize tags.

The search expression:
_(.*?)_

And replace expression for HTML italicize tags:
<i>\1</i>

This S&R is not greedy and it leaves all characters outside the underscores alone.

Thanks kind people for the help.
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