Re: Re: string highlight

On 6/8/05, Jay Blanchard <jay.blanchard@niicommunications.com> wrote: > [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? > Hmmm, that would solve the above specific mentioned problem. how about something like <tag body="whatever"> or <tag whatever="body"> assuming that body is the word to be highlighted.