Reg. Expression removal question

Hello,

I am still learning the differences from Perl and PHP. It's a pretty simple expression in Perl, yet, I can't find it's equal in PHP.

Basically, I want to find a word, and remove all the data before and after it in a replacing.

If you know perl, it was just:
$data = s/.word//s;
$data = s/word.//s;

I'd like to do the same in PHP, but have looked everywhere with no luck.

Any help here would be great. THANKS!

You can do this a couple of ways in php.
$data = s/.word//s;
Would be:

$data = preg_replace("/\.*word/","",$data);

$data = eregi_replace(".*word","",$data);

$data = s/word.//s;
Would be:

$data = preg_replace("/word\.*/","",$data);

$data = eregi_replace("word.*","",$data);

Or something similar to this if you check the php site for preg_replace and ereg_replace they should have more information.