[thelist] Regular Expression Question

[Beau Hartshorne]

I am trying to write a function that takes an array of tags and an html
encoded string as input, and then selectively decodes the encoded string
based on the array of tags supplied. I am not using html_entity_decode
because I only want to decode the &quot; entities that lie in between <
and >. I want to leave the &quot;s that are outside of the < and >
alone.

BTW, I made a typo in my example (I had forgotten the = sign after
target). Here's the fixed version:

She said &quot;hello, world&quot; [<a target=&quot;_new&quot;
href=&quot;link.html&quot;>1</a>]

Is translated to:

She said &quot;hi, there.&quot; [<a target="_blank"
href="link.html">1</a>]

Cheers,

Beau

> I don't try to do regex ... I'm still learning it myself. 
> However, I am 
> curious why you aren't using html_entity_decode()?
> 
> (slightly modified manual example):
> 
> $orig = "I'll &quot;walk&quot; the <b>dog</b> now";
> $b = html_entity_decode($orig);
> echo $b;
> echo "\n";
> 
> This gives me
> 
> I'll "walk" the <b>dog</b> now