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TheLoneGunMan New User Aug 10, 2002, 12:17 AM Post #1 of 3 (2408 views) Highlighting words Can't Post I'm wondering if I could get some help with the following. I'm trying to highlight a word within an HTML page. The word can be any string or char. How would I go about it so I only highlight the content and not an HTML tag. I'm using the span style tag for highlight. So if I want to highlight the word "a" in the whole document, I want to highlight just the word "a" from the content, not from any HTML tags. Anyone know a solution? Thanks, I appreciate it.

davorg Thaumaturge / Moderator Aug 10, 2002, 1:32 AM Post #2 of 3 (2407 views) Re: [TheLoneGunMan] Highlighting words [In reply to] Can't Post Regular expressions are almost certainly the wrong tool for this job. Regex-based parsing of hierarchically structured text will always break at some point. A better idea would be to use HTML::Parser or one of its subclasses. HTML::TreeBuilder might be a good idea. -- Dave Cross, Perl Hacker, Trainer and Writer http://www.dave.org.uk/ Get more help at Perl Monks

TheLoneGunMan New User Aug 10, 2002, 12:51 PM Post #3 of 3 (2401 views) Re: [davorg] Highlighting words [In reply to] Can't Post Thanks for the feed back. It was of top priority on my list. This is my first post on this forum, and on most other forums that I visit, most people only just refer to only one section of the forum, and they never see the post. Sorry for any miscovenience.

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