ereg_replace()

[donnierivera]

Hello,

I am trying to clean up my string before I make my sql statement. I am haveing trouble with going through my noise word list and kicking out matches. I am currently using the ereg_replace(), but that is not going to work because in "Colorado" it kicks out the the "a" so then it letter becomes two words "Color" "do". If a user types "A Colorado" I want to kick out the "A" so it looks like "Colorado". Thanks for any help...

$queryCleanUp=ereg_replace("[^{[:alnum:]]","} ",trim($query));

//////////////////////////////////////////
for ($i=0;$i<188;++$i){
$queryCleanUp=ereg_replace("$noiseWord[$i]"," ",strtoupper(trim($queryCleanUp)));
}
//////////////////////////////////////////

$queryCleanUp=ereg_replace("[[:space:]]+"," ",trim($queryCleanUp));
$queryWords=split(" ", $queryCleanUp);
$queryNum=count($queryWords);

[Anon]

heres an old stupid one i did...

$search = eregi_replace("[^{A-Za-z0-9#&/,} -]"," ",$search);
$search = eregi_replace("(^| )(at|in|if|is|on|by|the|this|or|for|of|to|be|from|etc|ll|and|but|re|ve|an| )+( |$)"," ",$search);
$search_array = explode(" ", $search);

[donnierivera]

Thanks for the replay, but this is what I ended up doing....

//Count the number of words
$queryNum=count($queryWords);
$noiseWordNum=count($noiseWord);
$n=0;
//Remove noise words
for($i=0;$i<$queryNum;++$i){
for($x=0;$x<$noiseWordNum;++$x){
if (strtoupper($queryWords[$i])==$noiseWord[$x]){
$queryWords[$i]="";
break;
}
}
if($queryWords[$i]!==""){
$newQueryWords[$n]=$queryWords[$i];
$n++;
}
}

[Anon]

well... if i were you i would use my simple regular expression rather than nested for loops!