Question

How to add HTML tags in front of every character that is part of the regular expression syntax in PHP

Answer 1

$s = "This *PHP* code is nice";
$word = "*PHP*";
$s = preg_replace("/" . preg_quote($word, '/') . "/", "<i>" . $word . "</i>", $s);
                          
echo $s;


/*
run:
    
This *PHP* code is nice 

       
*/

 

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