I had the following code that worked for on my previous install of Visual Studio 2005 without SP1.  Now I reinstalled and went ahead and installed SP1 and now it doesnt work.

mc = Matches(strValue, "\(?<text>.*?)\[/url\]", RegexOptions.Singleline Or RegexOptions.IgnoreCase)
For Each m In mc
    strValue = Regex.Replace(strValue, m.Value, "<a href =""" & m.Groups("link").Captures(0).ToString & """>" & m.Groups("text").Captures(0).ToString & "</a>")
Next

testing on this strValue

"[url=http://www.domain.com/test/code-check/a-b-c-d1.php?a=1]Test Url"

it now fails where previously it did not.

I do not have my original VS 2005 without SP1.  Can someone test this to make sure it works as I believe it should.  I know probably is not great and I tried to rework it to get rid of the any and it works fine under expresso but fails in VS at runtime.


 

This should be "Test Url"

 Sorry
 

strValue = "Test Url"

Ok... I think you understand there should be a [/url] at the end of that.

Would be nice if you could actually just enter code that wont be rendered by your forum post processing. :) 

Sorry I did not include this... The error I received is..

"parsing "['url=http://www.domain.com/test/code-check/a-b-c-d1.php?a=1]Test URL[/url']" - [x-y] range in reverse order. "

 http://www.domain.com/test/code-check/a-b-c-d1.php?a=1

It is like it sees the dashes in the url AS the regular expression. 

And the regex is...

\[rul=(?<link>.*?)\](?<text>.*?)\[/rul\]

you have to turn the rul into url otherwise it obviously wont get posted correctly to the page.