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Posted by John Nichel on 06/08/05 18:32
Rory Browne wrote:
<snip>
>>Good catch Rory. A regex replace would work better here.
>>
>>$search = "body";
>>$find = "/\b" . $search . "\b/";
>>preg_replace ( $find, "<b>" . $search . "</b>", $html );
>
>
> I don't think so. If I'm reading your code correctly you still have
> the same problem, as I outlined above. There is no simple solution to
> this. It either involves advanced regex(more advanced than my
> understanding of it), or a proper parser.
>
> <?pseudo_code
>
> function highlight_html_string($needle, $haystack);
>
> $retval = "";
> $i = 0;
> while($i < strlen($haystack)){
> $str = get_text_between_certain_point_and_first_instance_of_<($i);
> $str = preg_replace(what john said above);
> $str .= get_tag_text($i);
> $retval .= $str;
> $i += strlen($str);
> }
>
> return $retval;
> ?>
< won't be picked up as a word boundry (\b).
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