Regular Expressions

[vpekulas]

I'm using this function to phrase the text (strDES) for occurrences of words (arrKEYS) and I highlight them using the RegEx.

The problem I have is that it highlight text that is between the HTML tags it created, more specifically the
<span class='spanMATCH'>$1</span>
Is there any way to tell the RegEx to keep highlighting, only text out of the <> tags ?

PRIVATE FUNCTION HIGHLIGHT(strDES, arrKEYS)
   Dim regEx, I
   Set regEx = New RegExp
   FOR I = 0 to Ubound(arrKEYS)            
       regEx.Global = True
       regEx.IgnoreCase = True
       'regEx.Pattern = "(\b" & arrKEYS(I) & "[?!, ])" ' REGEX FOR WHOLE WORDS ONLY
       regEx.Pattern = "(" & arrKEYS(I) & ")" ' Any occurance of the match
       strDES = regEx.Replace(strDES,"<span class='spanMATCH'>$1</span>")
   NEXT
   Set regEx = Nothing    
   HIGHLIGHT = strDES
END FUNCTION

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[onpnt]

the most effective work around I ahve always used in this type of situation, is to remove any HTML tags in the values you pass the function.

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[vpekulas]

Well I can not do that simply becasue the very function that phrases the text adds <span> tag to the text (strDES)
and it's repeated with X times, depending how many keywords I want highlighted.

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