I have a HTML file, for example:
<p class="label" id="p-1'>This is my sample txt </p>
<p class="label" id="p-2'>This is my sample txt </p>
<p class="label" id="p-3'>This is my sample txt </p>
<p class="label" id="p-4'>This is my sample txt </p>
<p class="label" id="p-5'>This is my sample txt </p>
I want the output look like this:
<p class="label" id="p-1'><span class ="span-class">This is my sample txt </span></p>
<p class="label" id="p-2'><span class ="span-class">This is my sample txt </span></p>
<p class="label" id="p-3'><span class ="span-class">This is my sample txt </span></p>
<p class="label" id="p-4'><span class ="span-class">This is my sample txt </span></p>
<p class="label" id="p-5'><span class ="span-class">This is my sample txt </span></p>
Is this possible with preg_replace? Is there any other way to accomplish this?
In php you can achieve this with:
<?php
$html = <<< LOB
<p class="label" id="p-1'>This is my sample txt </p>
<p class="label" id="p-2'>This is my sample txt </p>
<p class="label" id="p-3'>This is my sample txt </p>
<p class="label" id="p-4'>This is my sample txt </p>
<p class="label" id="p-5'>This is my sample txt </p>
LOB;
echo preg_replace('%<p class="label" id="p-(.*?)\'>(.*?)</p>%sim', '<p class="label" id="p-$1\'><span class ="span-class">$2</span></p>', $html);
?>
EXPLANATION:
<p class="label" id="p-(.*?)'>(.*?)</p>
Options: Case insensitive; Exact spacing; Dot matches line breaks; ^$ match at line breaks; Greedy quantifiers; Regex syntax only
Match the character string “<p class="label" id="p-” literally (case insensitive) «<p class="label" id="p-»
Match the regex below and capture its match into backreference number 1 «(.*?)»
Match any single character «.*?»
Between zero and unlimited times, as few times as possible, expanding as needed (lazy) «*?»
Match the character string “'>” literally «'>»
Match the regex below and capture its match into backreference number 2 «(.*?)»
Match any single character «.*?»
Between zero and unlimited times, as few times as possible, expanding as needed (lazy) «*?»
Match the character string “</p>” literally (case insensitive) «</p>»
<p class="label" id="p-$1'><span class ="span-class">$2</span></p>
Insert the character string “<p class="label" id="p-” literally «<p class="label" id="p-»
Insert the text that was last matched by capturing group number 1 «$1»
Insert the character string “'><span class ="span-class">” literally «'><span class ="span-class">»
Insert the text that was last matched by capturing group number 2 «$2»
Insert the character string “</span></p>” literally «</span></p>»
DEMO: http://ideone.com/YaZG2p