Looking to highlight my text

wizard341 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Im currently investigating a search feature that runs through the text and highlights it for the user to see (pretty revolutionary huh? ;p). Anyways i was wondering if there was any way i could use the CGI.pm model, or if it wouldnt be too much of a headache to embed some html, in the cgi file, to highlight the text for me. I breifly glazed over the cpan description of CGI.pm and quickly found myself overwhelmed.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how i can highlight text? (word matching is no problem so dont worry about explaining it ) Thanks in advance!

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Re: Looking to highlight my text by derby (Abbot) on Jul 28, 2003 at 21:15 UTC
CPAN is your friend -> Highlight. -derby	[reply]
Re: Re: Looking to highlight my text by wizard341 (Acolyte) on Jul 28, 2003 at 21:30 UTC
ahh! thanks guys	[reply]
Re: Re: Looking to highlight my text by SyN/AcK (Scribe) on Jul 29, 2003 at 05:30 UTC
Very cool!	[reply]
Re: Looking to highlight my text by diotalevi (Canon) on Jul 28, 2003 at 21:22 UTC
Easy - replace the text with something that sets the CSS class. Allowing user submitted regexes is somewhat dodgy without precautions - I'm making sure your user data is safe by using \Q\E on it.`s((\Q$match\E))(<span class="found_text">$1</span>)sg`	[reply] [d/l]