Re: str_replace on words?
| From: | Duncan Hill | Date: | Wed, 11 May 2005 17:31:30 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: str_replace on words? | ||
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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.