A regex that converts text lists to html in PHP

Question

I\'m trying to code a regexp to convert a block of text:

* List item
* Another list item

to html:

Answer 1

Well, you could simply do

$text = "
" . preg_replace("/\*+(.*)?/i","
$1
",$text) . "
";

or, if you really want to use preg_replace

$text = preg_replace("/(\(.*?)\<\/li\>\n*)+/is","
\n$1\n
\n",$text);