Problems with Regular Expressions

[Anon]

Hi,

I would like to use a regular expression to replace some parts of a text, that are not enclosed in < > (i.e. that are not HTML/PHP etc. tags).
What I mean is that if I have:
$txt = "I like this color<font color="red">!</font>";
$txt = preg_replace(...,"<b>color</b>",$txt);
// result: "I like this <b>color</b><font color="red">!</font>";

Here's what I got so far:
$term = "color";
$txt = preg_replace("/([^{<]\w)(".$term.")(\w[>])/i","$1<b>$2</b>$3",$txt);}

But it doesn't really work 🙁
Please help, I'm going nuts here...

Thanks,
Saar.

[Anon]

Anyone? I'm desparate 🙁

[Anon]

I don't think that your problem so simple. See here:

echo "Remember x<y and this text to replace will not be replaced because y>x <BR>";

You need to parse text. Keyword to search for solution: XML, DOM, XSLT.

[Anon]

In: "Remember x<y and this text to replace will not be replaced because y>x <BR>"

The < in x<y and > in y>x will be marked with &lt; and &gt; respectively, so that won't really be a problem.