Re: String Replacement
| From: | adam | Date: | Mon, 15 Jan 2001 11:34:25 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: String Replacement | ||
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Toby Butzon <php-lists@imawebdesigner.com> said:
> lol...
>
> Ok, so you want to replace ONLY the word "boy" with the word "girl"... you
> don't want to touch "boys".
>
> Perhaps str_replace("boy ", "girl ", $myStr) would do the trick?
>
No, I thought of that - if the word is up against a fullstop or comma (or
something else), that won't work. A regular expression will need to be used,
and since I'm no good at them I can't make a suggestion. Sorry. :)
adam