Hello perl gurus.. first let me explain my predicament. i am a webmaster of a search engine running on perl. when you do a query, the search.cgi script loads a template, called search_results.html. in that template are tags that look like <%tag%>. one particular tag is troubling me, which is <%search_results%>. say that you search for "perl", and say that we get 5 results. by the default, all instances of 'perl' is bolded with tags. the format would be:

Perl Monks
Description: Website for seekers of perl wisdom.
http://www.perlmonks.com
Category: computers and internet >> programming >> perl

the bolding process is done withing search cgi, that looks like: 

# This reg expression will do the trick, and doesn't bold things insid
+e <> tags such as 
# URL's.

$link_results =~ s,(<[^>]+>)|(\Q$term\E),defined($1) ? $1 : "<b>$2</b>
+",gie;

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one problem is when you search for the words 'description' or 'category'. the link results thing also bolds Description: and Category:, which i dont want. to paint the picture clearly:

Yahoo!
Description: Directory of websites each with a description and classified by category.
http://www.yahoo.com
Category: computers and internet >> search engines

each link result also depends on a template called searchlink.html.

it so happened that search.cgi takes it so literally that it bolds everything at its own discretion.

I wonder if there is anything i can do to have only the vital information bolded. actually i would only want the title and description matches bolded and nothing else (not even in the category or url). i believe the code i provided bolds something based on a pattern but apparently it doesn't work and i don't understand how it works, except that it looks for a certain pattern and bolds it. i wonder if i could do something similar like that. an explanation will be greatly appreciated too. thanks, looking forward to your help:-)

drewboy

In reply to Replacement based on pattern by drewboy

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