Re: Replacing whole words only

I'm also an idiot ... Something else, the "or" output is occurring because the exception "the" matches "other " first so "other" becomes "or" minus the "the"... So heres what I did ... $search = array( '/\bthe\b/', '/\bother\b/', '/\bthat\b/', '/\ba\b/' ); $string = 'The other lady that laughed'; if( count( $search ) > 0 ) { foreach( $search as $exceptionPhrase ) { $string = preg_replace( strtolower($exceptionPhrase), '', strtolower($string)); } $retval = trim( $string ); } echo 'Retval: ' . $retval . '<br>'; And got lady laughed In the matches ex. "/\bthe\b/" the \b mean word boundry so it matches only the whole word... -David