At 14:57 15.01.2001 +0100, Cynic wrote:
>this one is really easy:
>
>$ret = preg_replace( '/(?!boy)s/' , 'girl' , $text ) ;
<?php
$string = "boys, boy, fort boyard";
$string = preg_replace("/boy(?!\w)/", "girl", $string);
print $string;
?>
should be correct.
daniel
>At 12:34 15.1. 2001, adam wrote the following:
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> >Toby Butzon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
> >
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