> From: "Chris Boget" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> Is there a way to replace/remove *whole* words from a
> phrase?  For example:
[snip]
>       $stringToParse = str_replace( $exceptionPhrase, '', trim(
> $stringToParse ));

Try this instead of str_replace()

$stringToParse = 
preg_replace("/(^|\\W){$exceptionPhrase}(\\W|$)/i",'\\1',$stringToParse);

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