Well,
I've some texts like this below:
< Jens > is my name. I play < Football >. I saw < Steffy > Yesterday. Yeah, We will be < Together > For sure.
And I just want all the texts between '<' & '>' (including <>) to be bold programmatically using Regular Expression (Preferably) or any other method. This is a kind of Find & Replace. So after the operation texts should be :
< Jens > is my name. I play < Football >. I saw < Steffy > Yesterday. Yeah, We will be < Together > For sure.
<?php
// header('Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8');
$test = <<<TXT
< Jens > is my name. I play < Football >.
I saw < Steffy > Yesterday. Yeah, We will be < Together > For sure.
TXT;
$result = preg_replace_callback(
'/<[^>]+>/',
function($matches){
return '<b>' . htmlspecialchars($matches[0]) . '</b>';
},
$test
);
print_r($result);
?>
Output:
< Jens > is my name. I play < Football >. I saw < Steffy > Yesterday. Yeah, We will be < Together > For sure.
preg_replace and as replacement '<b>\0</b>' be convenient?
header() stringhtmlspecialchars for the stuff inside <b>...</b> :)You can use this preg_replace:
$repl = preg_replace('/(<[^>]*>)/', '<b>$1</b>', $str);
<b>< Jens ></b> is my name. I play <b>< Football ></b>. I saw <b>< Steffy ></b> Yesterday. Yeah, We will be <b>< Together ></b> For sure.
For Much better understanding and learning regex for the further work you can visit the below links
Learning Regular Expressions
Useful regular expression tutorial
And one of the best and easy one and my favourite is
very nice and easy tutorial for the beginners
<[^<>]*>regex.