Simple .ASP for quick link creation in a page

I need my writers to quickly be able to add tags to articles for links.? If they are discussing something we want to be a link then I want them to be able to type something like, the articles are pulled from a database and we can handle that part, I just need the code to parse the links in. ? I'm looking for a script that will probably be something like linkstart=instr(newsfeed,"{!") linkstop=instr(newsfeed,"}",linkstart) code to figure out what is in the middle maybe for x=linstart to linkstop linkword = linkword + next If I have to think any more I've written it myself already ;) BUT I do need the ability to have a variable, so I need the code to look for a " | " between {! and } so the link text and the link word don't have to be the same... ie. {!Britney | Britney Spears} was in the news today would parse as <a href="/news/stories/Britney Spears/">Britney was in the news today ---and if they are the same than this would work --- {!Britney Spears} was in the news today would parse as <a href="/news/stories/Britney Spears/">Britney Spears was in the news today