Question

I have the HTML output currently as this:

<a href="#">Coats</a> (12)

What I’d like to do, is a regex or operation that moves the number to inside anchor in such a way:

<a href="#">Coats<span>12</span></a>

The output is ALWAYS in same format I posted. I simply looking to eliminate the ( ) and wrap it in span, and put it without any space inside the HTML structure for anchor.

(DID NOT try anything because I do not know anything close, about regex)

Thank you.

Answer 1

 $html = preg_replace('|<a href="(.+?)">(.+?)</a> \((\d+?)\)|i', 
         '<a href="$1">$2<span>$3</span></a>', $html);

With the caveat that regular expressions should not generally be used to manipulate HTML.