I am building a web search function for our site and want to highlight the word/phrase a user requested on the results page just like this site uses.

I have the code which works but only if you hard code the search criteria which obviously won't work for a search page. What I want to do is insert the value of a variable in the code for the pattern below where it says VARIABLE.

regEx.Pattern = "(\b[a-zA-Z\._]?VARIABLE)"

I have tried using response.write(VARIABLE) but no luck - it appears that regex.pattern only wants to see literal values.

Thanks

I just got this from 4guysfromrolla ... check whether this would help you in any way ...

*****Code STARTS here*****
Function Highlight(Search_Str as String, _
                   InputTxt as String, _
                   StartTag as String, _
                   EndTag as String) As String

  Dim ResultStr As String
  Return Regex.Replace(InputTxt, "\b(" & Regex.Escape(Search_Str) & ")\b", _
           StartTag & "$1" & EndTag, RegExOptions.IgnoreCase)
End Function
*****Code ENDS here*****

Best Regards
Vadivel

MVP ASP/ASP.NET
http://vadivel.thinkingms.com

Thanks Vadivel - I'll try some variation of that code which looks like it accepts a VARIABLE by using regex.escape.

Still no luck. Where did you get that code? I tried looking on the 4 Guys site but could not find it. Perhaps if I had the rest of the code in the example and not just the function it would be helpful.