Is there a way to replace/remove *whole* words from a phrase? For example: <? $exceptionsList = array( 'the', 'other', 'that', 'a' ); $stringToParse = 'The other lady that laughed'; if( count( $exceptionsList ) > 0 ) { foreach( $exceptionsList as $exceptionPhrase ) { $stringToParse = str_replace( $exceptionPhrase, '', trim( $stringToParse )); } $retval = trim( $stringToParse ); } echo 'Retval: ' . $retval . '<br>'; ?> results in "The or ldy lughed" and not "lady laughed". Using the other *_replace() functions give the same results. So is what I'm looking to do even possible? thnx, Chris -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php