Re: Re: string highlight

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; ?>

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