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By following to your example you can use this simple pattern<br />
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<pre><code id="code-20-37010366-1">  &lt;SCRIPT LANGUAGE=&quot;JavaScript&quot;&gt;
  &lt;!--
	var str = 'Term1 &lt;a href=&quot;#&quot;&gt; term 2&lt;/a&gt;';
	var matches = str.match(/(\w+)(.*)/);
	if(matches.length &gt;= 2)
		alert(&quot;&lt;a class=glossary&gt;&quot; + matches[1] + &quot;&lt;/a&gt; &quot; + matches[2]);
  //--&gt;
  &lt;/SCRIPT&gt;</code></pre>
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By following to your example you can use this simple pattern



  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
  
  </SCRIPT>

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thanks for this, would this regex work in vbscript?
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thanks for this, would this regex work in vbscript?

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Mine will work with any scripts it´s basic RegEx
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Mine will work with any scripts it´s basic RegEx

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we have some code that overlays a glossary of terms as jquery popups on html content. It implements this by adding &lt;a&gt; tag around the term to be highlighted. The problem we have is that if the term is within a hyperlink then it corrups the link. We would like to exclude any text that &nbsp;is within a hypelink or other html tags. So, the replacement would take this:<br />
Term1 &lt;a href=&quot;#&quot;&gt; term 2&lt;/a&gt; <br />
and create this:<br />
&lt;a class=glossary&gt;Term1&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;#&quot;&gt;term 2&lt;/a&gt;<br />
term 2 is ignored as it is a hyperlink. <br />
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Is this possible?<br />
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we have some code that overlays a glossary of terms as jquery popups on html content. It implements this by adding <a> tag around the term to be highlighted. The problem we have is that if the term is within a hyperlink then it corrups the link. We would like to exclude any text that  is within a hypelink or other html tags. So, the replacement would take this:
Term1 <a href="#"> term 2</a> 
and create this:
<a class=glossary>Term1</a> <a href="#">term 2</a>
term 2 is ignored as it is a hyperlink. 

Is this possible?



RegEx require to replace items when not links

A scripting language is a programming language that supports scripts, programs written for a special run-time environment that automate the execution of tasks that could alternatively be executed one-by-one by a human operator. Scripting languages are often interpreted (rather than compiled). Primitives are usually the elementary tasks or API calls, and the language allows them to be combined into more complex programs. Environments that can be automated through scripting include software applications, web pages within a web browser, the shells of operating systems (OS), embedded systems, as well as numerous games. A scripting language can be viewed as a domain-specific language for a particular environment; in the case of scripting an application, this is also known as an extension language.