Search keyword highlight in ASP.Net

Question

I am outputting a list of search results for a given string of keywords, and I want any matching keywords in my search results to be highlighted. Each word should be wrapped in

Answer 1

An extension to the answer above. (don't have enough reputation to give comment)

To avoid span from being replaced when search criteria were [span pan an a], the found word was replaced to something else than replace back... not very efficient though...

public string Highlight(string input)
{
    if (input == string.Empty || searchQuery == string.Empty)
    {
        return input;
    }

    string[] sKeywords = searchQuery.Replace("~",String.Empty).Replace("  "," ").Trim().Split(' ');
    int totalCount = sKeywords.Length + 1;
    string[] sHighlights = new string[totalCount];
    int count = 0;

    input = Regex.Replace(input, Regex.Escape(searchQuery.Trim()), string.Format("~{0}~", count), RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
    sHighlights[count] = string.Format("{0}", searchQuery);
    foreach (string sKeyword in sKeywords.OrderByDescending(s => s.Length))
    {
        count++;
        input = Regex.Replace(input, Regex.Escape(sKeyword), string.Format("~{0}~", count), RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
        sHighlights[count] = string.Format("{0}", sKeyword);
    }

    for (int i = totalCount - 1; i >= 0; i--)
    {
        input = Regex.Replace(input, "\\~" + i + "\\~", sHighlights[i], RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
    }

    return input;
}