Ok, but I thought the start and end chars
were ^ $
i.e., ^is$
or is this not what you mean by bounderies?
????
-confused... ;-)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robin Vickery [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 11:06 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [PHP] ereg_replace
>
>
> >>>>> "VB" == "Brian V Bonini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Ah right, strings not words, I feel like a dummy now... ;-)
>
> >> -----Original Message----- From: John Vanderbeck
> >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001
> >> 10:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Robin Vickery;
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] ereg_replace
> >>
>
> >> > $string = preg_replace(
> >> > array( '/is/', '/string/' ),
> >> > array( 'is not', 'bit of text' ),
> >> > $string
> >> > );
>
> You could specify word boundaries on each side of your string
> to get the behaviour you were expecting.
>
> $string = preg_replace(
> array( '/\bis\b/', '/\bstring\b/' ),
> array( 'is not', 'bit of text' ),
> $string
> );
>
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