> I'm looking to match a string every time it is not preceded or
> followed by a letter.
hmmm. Would this work?
eregi_replace("[^a-z]*Booty[^a-z]*","_\\0_","your Booty String Here");
> "Booty" as my example).
>
> For example, I would want to match:
> Booty
> Booty (with a space)
> Booty,
> Booty.
> "Booty"
>
> etc., but not:
>
> Bootylicious
>
> When I find Booty, I want to do some formatting to Booty, but not to
> the punctuation or space following or preceding.
>
> for example, change "Booty," to "_Booty_,"
>
> I'm doing this in a php environment. Can anyone help or point me in the
> direction of a "dummies" tutorial?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave
>
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