Monks,

I am having brain meltdown here. I want to search a string and replace occurances of a certain word with a tagged value around it, but only if that word doesn't appear in an html tag. For example:

$string = "<img src=\"test.jpg\"> highlight the word 'word' in this se
+ntence";

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would become

<img src="test.jpg"> highlight the <b>WORD</b> '<b>WORD</b>' in this s
+entence

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but:

$string "<img src=\"test.jpg\"> highlight the word <img src=\"word.jpg
+\">";

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would become 
<img src="test.jpg"> highlight the <b>WORD</b> <img src="word.jpg">;

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Note that the word word in the photo name did not get <b> tags around it.

I know it can be done, but I'm having trouble with the proper regex for it. My knowledge is limited. 
$replacementString = "<b>WORD</b>";
$string =~ s/word/$replacementString/ig;

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which obviously is replacing all occurances, inside tags or not. What am I missing?

In reply to Replacing text NOT in an HTML tag by Anonymous Monk

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