Posted by Steve on 11/12/07 17:51

<ross.oneill@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks for your response. But if in your example
> strVar "Bob is from Canada" -- would return true when I want it to
> return false.

people shy away from regex...but, i don't know why.

/\bca(\b|$)/i

preg_match 'Bob is from Canada' returns false

preg_match 'Bill is from San Diego, CA' returns true.



you'd be hard-pressed to write anything more simple or manageable.

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