On 6/8/05, Jay Blanchard <jay.blanchard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
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