remove string only if it word, not part of other string

Asked Jul 15 '15 at 12:25

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i am trying to 'clean' my products names from something like 'blackberry Z3 64GB black' to 'blackberry Z3' I have an array of words and i use str_ireplace to remove them. The problem occurs is that when i remove the word 'black' it is also removed from the blackberry. I need to remove the word ONLY if it is a word and not part of another word. Maybe regex?

Any suggestions?

asked Jul 15 '15 at 12:25

use word boundaries `\bblack\b` – Avinash Raj Jul 15 '15 at 12:26
is there an easy way without regex? – Jul 16 '15 at 11:12

remove string only if it word, not part of other string

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