Allend Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 I have a great little script that will search a file and replace a list of words with their matching replacement word. I have also found a way to prevent preg_replace from replacing those words if they appear in anchor tags, img tags, or really any one tag I specify. I would like to create an OR statement to be able to specify multiple tags. To be clear, I would like to prevent preg_replace from replacing words that not only appear in an anchor tag, but any that appear in an anchor,link,embed,object,img, or span tag. I tried using the '|' OR operator at various places in the code with no success. <?php $data = 'somefile.html'; $data = file_get_contents($data); $search = array ("/(?!(?:[^<]+>|[^>]+<\/a>))\b(red)\b/is","/(?!(?:[^<]+>|[^>]+<\/a>))\b(white)\b/is","/(?!(?:[^<]+>|[^>]+<\/a>))\b(blue)\b/is"); $replace = array ('Apple','Potato','Boysenberry'); echo preg_replace($search, $replace, $data);?> print $data; ?> looking at the first search term which basically says to search for "red" but not inside <a> </a>: "/(?!(?:[^<]+>|[^>]+<\/a>))\b(red)\b/is" I am trying to figure out how I can keep preg_replace out of not just the </a> tag, but also the other tags listed. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/224036-restrict-preg_replace-function-from-multiple-tags/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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