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<?php function highlight($text, $words) { preg_match_all ( '~[\w\'\"]+~', $words, $m ); if (! $m) return $text; $re = '~\\b(' . implode ( '|', $m [0] ) . ')\\b~i'; return preg_replace ( $re, '<em>$0</em>', $text ); } $text = "this is Mechanic's test"; $word = "Mechanic's"; echo highlight($text,$word); $text = 'this is Mechanic"s test'; $word = 'Mechanic"s'; echo "\n".highlight($text,$word); $text = 'this is Mechanics test'; $word = 'Mech'; echo "\n".highlight($text,$word);
Output for 5.6.0 - 5.6.40, 7.0.0 - 7.0.33, 7.1.0 - 7.1.33, 7.2.0 - 7.2.33, 7.3.0 - 7.3.33, 7.4.0 - 7.4.33, 8.0.0 - 8.0.30, 8.1.0 - 8.1.28, 8.2.0 - 8.2.18, 8.3.0 - 8.3.7
this is <em>Mechanic's</em> test this is <em>Mechanic"s</em> test this is Mechanics test
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