I want to bold everything in a string that comes before a : and do it the following way (PHP):
$string = preg_replace('/(.*):/', '<span class="bold">\\1:</span>', $string);
Now I need an exception: I do NOT want to bold the text if there is a ( before the :. Is this possible?
(So basically Size: 123 should get bolded, but We increase this (Max: 30) should NOT get bolded)
Sure, just use :
$string = preg_replace('/([^(]*):/', '<span class="bold">\\1:</span>', $string);
It will match any character before the : except (.
Max: from the original example at all, how would I do that (since currently "Max:" gets bolded)You are going to break ... lets say: Everything
<a href="http://example.com"><img src="http://example.com/image.png"/></a>
Now what?
I assume, that this Size: 123 is not "somewhere" on the page. So format it, when you output it
list($name, $value) = array_map('trim', explode(':', $attribute));
echo "<span class=\"bold\">$name</span>: $value";
It would also be better to have this as array in the first place like in array('Size'=>'123')
array('fooName' => 'barValue'))@blue112 is almost there but in order not do bold Max in the string We increase this (Max: 30) one needs to make sure that the whole string doesn't contain any opening brackets. This is done by adding the beginning-of-string marker ^:
$string = preg_replace('/^([^(]*):/', '<span class="bold">\\1:</span>', $string);
See it in action here.
<img alt="Foo:bar" />Now what? // Even better:<a href="http://example.com"><img src="http://example.com/image.png"/></a>:)