Temporary removal of HTML from string for Google Translate API to reduce cost

Question

I have to translate some details using a Google API which we\'re paying for. The details contain HTML, and Google charges for each character. I don\'t want to send the complete

Answer 1

Haha, I also had that problem. But it has been while ago...

I think, there was a problem were - due to translation-nature - some sentenceparts were swaped. So I was not able to fit the tags in at the same position, first. But I think there was a way to get some metadata from the translationprocess, were you can see which part of the sentence have moved to a new position and what the content was... I know, I solved it finally. But I cant recall how :(

If every word takes the same place again after translation, you could first separate all words by whitespace OR htmltag into an array and remember where each HTML-tag was and reapply that after translation...