RE: [PHP] Regex question: replacing incidences of character when not enclosed within HTML tags? (somewhat solved)

> So, thinking about it a little more, I decided what I was looking for was > a > regular expression that would allow me to replace any incidences of > hyphens > when not contained within tags (i.e., when not contained between "<" and > ">"). > > And this is where things have ground to a halt. Hi All, After toying with this for several hours I decided to give up on trying to work out a way to achieve this via a single regular expression replacement. My simpler 'solution' now is to pull out all text not contained within tags using preg_match_all(), and run a str_replace() across these values to replace any incidences of hyphens, and then another str_replace() to replace the content with the substring where hyphens were found. So, something like: <? preg_match_all("/(^|>)(.+?)(<|$)/m", $text,$hypharr); for ($i=0; $i < count($hypharr[0]); $i++){ $rephyph = str_replace("-","-<span style='font-size: 0px;'> </span>", $hypharr[0][$i]); if ($rephyph <> $hypharr[0][$i]){ $text= str_replace($hypharr[0][$i],$rephyph,$text); } } ?> This seems to achieve what I'm looking for, ie replacing hyphens when not contained in HTML tags. Regards, Murray