Posted by Aaron Saray on 11/11/07 20:19

On Nov 10, 3:09 pm, ross.one...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any function in php that will match a word exactly and if it
> finds it, it returns true.
>
> For example if I search for "CA"
>
> strVar = "Bob is from Los Angeles CA" - return true
>
> strVar "Bob is from Canada" -- returns false
>
> Any help is appreciated
>
> Thanks
>
> -Ross

You might use preg_match() with word boundaries... perhaps?

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