Online PHP editor | refs for khT6j

<?php $text = 'The refugee said "dam!"'; $bad_words = array("fug","schnitt","dam"); $bad_words = array_walk($bad_words, function($value, $key) { // this prepares the regex, requires PHP 5.3+ I think. return preg_quote('~\b' . $value . '\b~i'); // \b means word boundary, like space, line-break, and I think period, dash, and many others. Prevends "refudgee" from being matched when searching for "fudge" }); $good_words = array("fudge","shoot","dang"); $good_text = preg_replace($bad_words,$good_words,$text);