Hostname Filtering

I have a few PHP scripts where I log hit to a page i.e. IP and hostname via a look up. What I want to do is create essentially a blacklist to prevent bots and other hosts and IP from being logged and skewing my stats. My local IP/host and the MSN and Googlebot hits should not be in my stats or at least I can flag them to hide them. For example: $blacklist = array( '*.wavefront.ca', '*.googlebot.com', 'msnbot.msn.com', '*.inktomisearch.com', '68.146.96.245' ); So lets say I have my host: $host = 'lj602144.inktomisearch.com'; I want to quickly parse this array and return a simple boolean if I am in the blacklist. I could create a loop and cycle through the array valves and to a regex on each but I was hoping someone would have a more elegant solution. Thanks, Dan T