[thelist] Regexp help?
Simon Willison
cs1spw at bath.ac.uk
Fri Sep 19 12:23:00 CDT 2003
Dougal Campbell wrote:
> I've been searching for a regexp that will let me do text replacements
> inside HTML text, but not within HTML tags themselves. In other words,
> if I had content like this:
>
> <a href="/meta/RSS.xml" title="My RSS feed">Our RSS 2.0 feed</a>
>
> I want to be able to modify the text 'RSS' without breaking the link or
> the title attribute.
Aaaaar matey. That's one dirty dawg of a problem, but I vanquished it
last night convertin' my blog to pirate. Here's the trick, ya scurvy
land lubber:
function myFunction($bits) {
$text = $bits[1];
// Now run the replacements on $text
// ...
return '>'.$text.'<';
}
$text = preg_replace_callback('/>(.*?)</s', 'myFunction', $text);
That thar snippet be just the trick. Now down yer grog, fire up yer
hornpipe and find yerself a comely wench. Ye international talk like a
pirate is almost at an end!
Arrrrrr!
Simon
http://simon.incutio.com/
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