Breaking up a profile field (with PHP?)

[Borgs8472]

Hey.

So I thought I'd make the members a custom links block on the portal, where members can put their favourite links.

I added a profile field, but that will only allow a single link, e.g. www.google.com without and won't allow for a descriptor.

So I need something more advanced.

Say the syntax of the profile field is a big text box. It could either be done like this:

Link1 www.link.com
Link2 www.link2.net
or
Link with spaces 1; www.link.com
Link with spaces 2; www.link2.net

or even;

Link1 www.link.com Link 2 www.link2.net

etc etc

Anyhow, how they're entered is irrlevent, I need this one field to be broken up and turned into nice custom links.

I did a little googling for string to individual process fields, but couldn't find any.

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In conclusion:

IN:
Link1 www.link.com
Link2 www.link.net

Out:

<a href="www.link.com">Link1</a><br />
<a href="www.link.net">Link2</a><br />

Can anyone point me at a function to cover somethink like that? :)