note 66034 rejected from function.preg-match by nlopess

Note Submitter: peter at etherface dot com ---- Howdy All: I am trying to write a regular expression to basically process dvd titles. For example if I have The Great Mouse Detectives I would like to display Great Mouse Detectives, The I have a function that does almost what I need but when there is a special character i.e( .,!@#$%...) it breaks. A.I. Artificial Intelligence => .I. Artificial Intelligence, A Is there a way that I can get preg_match to exclude a set of characters after it matches the ‘A’? preg_match("/\b$needle\b/i", strtolower($haystack)) $needle is ‘a’ or ‘an’ or ‘the’ and $haystack is the original title. Any help would be awesome!!!