Highlight a substring

matteomigliore · July 2014

Is possible to highlight a substring? E.g. With "Hello world!" highlight only "Hello"?

Thanks.

JoeAlbahari · July 2014

Util.WordRun (true, Util.Highlight ("hello"), "world")

matteomigliore · July 2014

And if the string is in the middle and appears multiple times? I've to split it and use Highlight?

JoeAlbahari · July 2014

Util.WordRun (true, "start", Util.Highlight ("middle"), "end")

Or:

Util.RawHtml ("start <span class='highlight'>middle</span> end")

If this is too clumsy, would writing a helper method in My Extensions solve it for you?

matteomigliore · July 2014

Ok, I obtain an error with RawHtml if the string contains < or >, for example if it starts with <.

matteomigliore · July 2014

Yes it would be very useful! I did it in my extensions but for the error above it is a little bit complex.

matteomigliore · July 2014

It should alse be useful to have a more tolerant Util.RawHtml method to allow dumping any HTML, also malformed or a full html.

JoeAlbahari · July 2014

The whole Dump pipeline is built around XElement, so I have no way to represent malformed HTML.

Highlight a substring

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