ScoobySport (SdB)

Hi Chaps

I have a major headache regular expression to do.

I want to search through html and replace a string with another string.

Except...

I don't want it to replace it when it's part of a html tag.

In addtion, string should only be replaced if it is a whole word

If the string to search for is "AAA" and the string to replace it with is "BBB" the following...

<a href="AAA">AAA</a> AAA XAAA <b>AAA. XAAA</b> <img="AAA.jpg">

should change to..

<a href="AAA">AAA</a> BBB XAAA <b>BBB. XAAA</b> <img="AAA.jpg">

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If you can work it out, you're a FAR better man than I am!

Thanks in advance

Simon

judgejules

If you have Dreamweaver MX (using a reg exp search/replace) then this worked on your test data above:

Search string: ([^a-zA-Z0-9"])AAA([^a-zA-Z0-9<])

Replease string: $1BBB$2

If you want to post or PM me some better data so I can test/refine, please feel free.

J

ScoobySport (SdB)

Hi judgejules

Thanks a million... I'm using php. Will test now.

brb

Cheers

Simon

ScoobySport (SdB)

sent you some code by pm

stevencotton

But the text between the <b>'s is part of an HTML tag, as indeed is the entire document

Is it just hyperlinks you want to avoid matching? The regex above will break if there happens to be a space after a matching token. For completeness it will need to avoid all anchor tags.

Steve