Using preg_replace to add text into line?

Question

Here's sample lines I'm working with:

<br/>
About Company Name<br/>
<p>This is just some random text About nothing.</p>
<br/>

Basically I want to manipulate any line that begins with About and ends with  .

I just want to bold it like this: About Company Name 

I can find that text like this:

^About.*<br/>

But I can't figure out how to add the bold symbols. Any help would be appreciated.

Maybe just preg_replace('~^(About.*)(<br\s*/>\s*)$~m', '$1$2', $s). — Wiktor Stribiżew
– Wiktor Stribiżew, Commented Apr 22, 2016 at 22:25

castletheperson · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-22 22:36:46Z

2

Add a capture group to your regex like this:

^(About.*)<br\/>$

And then use the regex like this:

$s = preg_replace('/^(About.*)<br\/>$/m', '<b>$1</b><br/>', $s);

answered Apr 22, 2016 at 22:31

castletheperson

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