replace question

[techlover]

Hi,

I have a situation and not sure how to do it. Normally when I want to replace something, I just use ereg_replace(). However this situation is different:

I have a string called: $my_string

In that string is the page from a book. Let's say I want to replace the word "is" with the word "for" BUT I only want to do this for the first occurance only. How would I do that?

Thanks

[techlover]

nevermind.

Just found:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-replace.php

and looks like I should be using this instead of ereg anyway plus has limit.

😃