Re: Regular expressions

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Okay, what I am referring to is cryptograms, where one letter is
substituted for another.  I would like to be able to list all the words
in a dictionary that have that arrangement of their letters.  Later on,
I would like to be able to do an entire cryptogram that way.
Dave Goodchild wrote:
> Is there a way to make a regular expression to match on a particular way
> the letters are arranged?  For instance, if you had a word:
> 
> THAT
> 
> 
> It could match on any word in the dictionary that had the form:
> 
> 1231
> 
> preg_,match('/^(\w){1}\w\w\1$/');
> 
> would match the above on a single line for example, where \1 refers to
> the pattern captured in parentheses at the start.
> 
> Try and be a little more specific in what you want to match, as regex is
> hard enough to start with - a detailed and clear description will elicit
> corresponding responses.

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