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January 27, 2012 00:35
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Regex to match a given term only when it does not appear within certain HTML tags (ie. a) or WP shortcodes
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| $pattern = '/([^a-zA-Z0-9-_>\[])(' . preg_quote( $given_term ) . ')([^a-zA-Z0-9-_<\]])(?!([^<]*)(\>|\<\/a|\]|<\/h\d\>))/i' |
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