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Highlighter v1.0

Published in: JavaScript 

URL: http://jsfromhell.com/string/highlight

Looks for occurrences of one or more strings on the text and calls a callback to replace it. Created: 2006.01.13

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  1. /*
  2. **************************************
  3. * String.highlight v1.0              *
  4. * Autor: Carlos R. L. Rodrigues      *
  5. **************************************
  6. */
  7. String.prototype.highlight = function(f, c, i){
  8.     var r = this, t = /([(){}|*+?.,^$\[\]\\])/g, i = !i ? "i" : "", rf = function(t, i){
  9.         return r.lastIndexOf("<", i) > r.lastIndexOf(">", i) ? t : c(t, p);
  10.     };
  11.     for(var p = -1, l = (f = f instanceof Array ? f : [f]).length; ++p < l;)
  12.         r = r.replace(new RegExp(f[p].replace(t, "\\\$1"), "gm" + i), rf);
  13.     return r;
  14. }

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