[ILUG] regexp / php question

[John P. Looney]

 This is a trick7y one, that slightly hurts my head. I'm wondering is
there an easy way that I don't know of, to solve this:

 I have a text file, with zero or more patterns like:

 send an email to 'Looney' <email at domain.com> and tell him about it.

 I'd like to replace 'Looney' with <a href="thing?Looney"> and
email at domain.com with a href="mailto:email at domain.com". It's a simple
regexp, but it has to be done many times.

 Do I have to loop over all the text file, line by line, or is there
something that'll do that for m e?

John

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