Greetings Monks,

I have a very silly problem: I am displaying the results of a search, I have the string searched for and the result string, what I need to do is highlight the query string in the results, but also to put a line break in the result every 80 characters.

So, if I do the breaks I can no longer match the query within the results (since it could have a \n in it) and if I do the markup first, a \n could fall within the 'span' tag.

What I do right now is save the original start index of the query string, insert the breaks, then calculate the number of breaks that would go before it and insert the tags accordingly. Somehow this just doesn't feel very elegant, is there a more perly way?

thanks a lot

In reply to highlight and line breaks by glwtta

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