How to change the color of the first character of a word using PHP script?

0 0 1 minute read

The preg_replace() function is an in-built function that returns a word or array of words with the replacement of some content after searching the pattern. If the search pattern is not found then it will be returned unchanged.

Approach:

Declare a variable with a string value.
Use preg_replace() function to replace the first character of every word.
Display the replaced value of the string variable.

Example 1:

PHP

<?php 
  
// Text to replace 
$text = "Geeks For Geeks"; 
  
// The preg_replace is used here to replace the  
// color of first character of the word 
$text = preg_replace('/(\b[a-z])/i',  
'<span style="color:green;">\1</span>', $text); 
  
// Display the text value 
echo $text
?>

Output:

Example 2:

PHP

<?php 
  
// Text to replace 
$text = "Practice code in GEEKSFORGEEKS"; 
  
// The preg_replace is used here to replace the  
// color of first character of the word 
$text = preg_replace('/(\b[a-z])/i',  
'<span style="color:green;">\1</span>', $text); 
  
// Display the text value 
echo $text
?>