RE: [PHP] Re: string highlight

[snip] 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; ?> [/snip] Also it should be noted that the <b> tag pair has really been depricated in favor of <strong> tags. Here is another thought, can you ignore your search string where it has tags immediately before and after it, so that >body< could be ignored?