Re: Replacing whole words only

Chris Boget wrote:

Is there a way to replace/remove *whole* words from a phrase? For example: <? $exceptionsList = array( 'the', 'other', 'that', 'a' ); $stringToParse = 'The other lady that laughed'; if( count( $exceptionsList ) > 0 ) {

    foreach( $exceptionsList as $exceptionPhrase ) {
      $stringToParse = str_replace( $exceptionPhrase, '', trim(

$stringToParse ));

    }
    $retval = trim( $stringToParse );

} echo 'Retval: ' . $retval . '<br>'; ?> results in "The or ldy lughed" and not "lady laughed". Using the other *_replace() functions give the same results. So is what I'm looking to do even possible? thnx, Chris

$exceptions = array('the', , 'other', 'that', 'a'); $string = 'The other lady that laughed'; foreach ($exsceptions as $exception) {

      $string = str_replace(' ' . $exception . ' ', '', $string);

} You might need to convert the string to either lower- or uppercase.