|  | Posted by windandwaves on 11/08/07 22:14 
On Nov 7, 9:55 am, Good Man <he...@letsgo.com> wrote:> windandwaves <nfranc...@gmail.com> wrote in news:1194381953.358772.178700
 > @q3g2000prf.googlegroups.com:
 >
 > > Why is this so hard?
 >
 > > I can do a str_replace.  That is easy.  However, I do many of them AND
 > > I want to make sure that one replacement does not override another...
 >
 > > e.g.
 > > statement 1 could be:  replace "cats" with "dogs"
 > > statement 2 could be: replaced "do" with "did"
 >
 > > as you can see, this could turn "cats" into "didgs"
 >
 > > That is what is the hard part.
 >
 > then yes, go for regex so you can specify beginnings/ends of words as
 > opposed to characters in a string
 
 Hi
 
 I thought that would be the way to go.  I dont think I have enough
 skills to write a fully-fledged regex for this. Would you have any
 ideas?
 
 Thank you
 
 Nicolaas
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