Replacing text in a string

Hello. I am pulling in a friend's rss feed and we are trying
to figure out how to make images display correctly. Here is a
sample chunk that I pull in:
I am posting a forum image here Image:
http://mysite/test.jpg
How would I be able to make the "Image:
http://mysite/test.jpg" part if
that post change to "<img src="
http://mysite/test.jpg">"
I tried REReplace but couldn't get it to replace correctly.
Can someone please help me out?

well, i'm no regex guru... that pattern to match a URL was
found via google :)
the rest of it is pretty straightforward. find any instance
of "Image: " followed by the URL pattern. The URL pattern is
enclosed in parentheses which means we can reference it later as
\1. so you now have that URL in what's essentially a variable...
pop that variable into the <img src= /> and that's all she
wrote.

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Message was edited by: DaNylz

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