On Wednesday 11 May 2005 17:13, Merlin wrote: > Hi there, > > I am trying to strip some words from a sentence. I tried it with > str_replace like described here: > http://www.totallyphp.co.uk/code/find_and_replace_words_in_a_text_string_us >ing_str_replace.htm > > Unfortunatelly it does not work the way I want, because if I want to > replace the word "in" all passages containing the characters "in" are > replaced. For example Singapore.
You need to tokenize your input and do exact matching. Alternately, preg_match / preg_replace may work with \b to specify word boundries. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
