Re: Help w/ regular expressions for banned words

In article <B68F2A37.47AD%lists@jumpinternet.com>, lists@jumpinternet.com (Team JUMP) wrote: > $num=count($bannedwords); > for($i=0;$i<$num-1;$i++) > { > $string = > eregi_replace("\b$bannedwords[$i]\b","[censored]",$string); > } > > > For whatever reason, no word in $bannedwords will match in the string. I've > tested it with simple expressions like "\btest\b" and it will not match the > word "test". Have you tried it with either "[:space:]$bannedwords[$i][:space:] or "\<$bannedwords[$i]\>" yet? Also, I think using a foreach($bannedwords as $current_word) would be a better choice here; more compact, and loops all the way to the end of the array even when the numerical index does not follow the expected sequence. (BTW, if you want to stick with the for() and you know the index numbers will always be sequentially zero to whatever, then your test should be just $i<$num. Otherwise, you're skipping the final loop.) -- CC