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Bastiaan ten Klooster
Bastiaan ten Klooster

Reputation: 173

Making regular expressions bold

I have some coordinates on my site that are printed as:

z:000

I would like to have this (including the z) printed in bold. The coordinates are in a text string like so:

$string = 'Lorem ipsum z:000 dolor sit amet';

I think I have to do this with Regex, but I'm not getting it to work. The first part is fixed, so the parts of the regex are ^z: and [0-9]

Upvotes: 0

Views: 270

Answers (4)

luke
luke

Reputation: 362

Just do it with some basic CSS:

$string = 'Lorem ipsum <span class="mark">z:000</span> dolor sit amet';

In the header, you will have something like this

<style type="text/css">
.mark{font-weight:bold;}
</style>

Upvotes: 1

Alain
Alain

Reputation: 36984

This should help

preg_replace("/(z:[0-9]{3})/", '<b>${1}</b>', $string);

Works for z:000 to z:999

Upvotes: 3

tomsv
tomsv

Reputation: 7277

$string = preg_replace("/z:[0-9][0-9][0-9]/", "<b>\\0</b>", $string);

Upvotes: 1

cud_programmer
cud_programmer

Reputation: 1264

Don't need regex, just need HTML formatting!

Encase your string in HTML bold tags:

$string = '<b>Lorem ipsum z:000 dolor sit amet</b>';

Upvotes: 0

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