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 ", $myStr) would do the trick?
--Toby
----- Original Message -----
From: "Flint Doungchak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Toby Butzon'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Flint Doungchak"
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Subject: RE: [PHP-WIN] String Replacement
> OK,
>
> Let's try this to clarify... I hope.
>
> str_replace("boy","girl","$string");
>
> In my case, PHP finds the 'boy' in boys and replaces it with 'girl'
giving
> me 'girls' which is not what I want.
>
> Boy, I hope that makes sense.
>
> -Flint
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Toby Butzon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 7:29 PM
> To: Flint Doungchak; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] String Replacement
>
>
> Seems to me that you've got what you want...
>
> If I'm reading you right, you want to keep plural words plural and
singular
> words singular... so boys would become girls and boy would become girl.
> Well... if you just replace boy with girl you get that result...
>
> So I'm not seeing the problem... enlighten me? ;)
>
> --Toby
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Flint Doungchak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 10:24 PM
> Subject: [PHP-WIN] String Replacement
>
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Hope you all had a nice weekend. Simple question, I think.
> >
> > I would like to find all occurance of:
> >
> > boy or boys
> >
> > and replace it with:
> >
> > girl or girls
> >
> > respectively.
> >
> > My problem is that using the str_replace function like this:
> >
> > str_replace("boy","girl","$string");
> >
> > turns boys into girls.
> >
> > I guess I want an exact match or some fuzzy intelligent thing. Did I
> explain
> > myself well. This isn't so easy to write down.
> >
> > Thanks in advance. Take care.
> >
> > -Flint
> >
> >
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