将所有文字包装在另一个标签中

Question

My html can look (and sometimes looks) like this:

<p>Some text <b>some <i>more text</i></b></p>a little bit more text

I need to wrap in spans every word within these tags. So the wrapped words would be Some, text, some, more, text, a, little, bit, more, text. I tried to use this code:

html_variable.replace(/(?<=>)[^<>]+(?=<)/g,filter)

where filter is a custom function, using which I easily wrapped every word. However, it turned out that (?<=>), a positive lookbehind, is not yet supported in ios. I am really bad in regular expressions, so I am asking for your help. Is there any well-supported alternative to the code above?

Answer 1

Try with this.

\w+(?![^<>]*>)

See demo here

This may work for you, depending in your input. There are plenty of cases that will make this fail replacing content you don't want to replace (for example content of script and title tags)

Anyways, for a throw-away job and a limited input, It may work for you .