Re: string function that adds before and after

> There's a number of functions in PHP that will give me the position of > the *first* instance of the matched string, but it doesn't look like the > function would keep searching after the first match. Anyway, am I > overlooking a function that already has the functionality that I'm > searching for? Or does anyone have any ideas how I can accomplish this > efficiently since my search strings can be quite long? try this preg_replace('/(weather)/i', "<strong>$1</strong>", 'This is the worst weather ever. Weather around here is terrible. ')