Perl/Regex question (hopefully simple)

[Madison Kelly]

Hi all,

   I'm not having a lot of luck googling for the answer to this 
question. I hope someone can help or point me in the right direction 
(like what perldoc to read).

   I am trying to do a regex substitute where I need to maintain two 
pieces of dynamic data. Specifically I am trying to convert some keys 
into a proper html link. For example, I want to convert:

[url=groups.google.ca]Google Groups[/url]

into

<a href="groups.google.ca" target="_new">Google Groups</a>

I was trying something like this but it isn't working...

$help_body =~ s/\[url=(.*)\](.*)\[\/url\]/(<a href=").*(" 
target="_new">).*(<\/a>)/gi;

So how do I go about substituting values around variable information 
that I want to save?

Thanks!!

Madison
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml