[PHP] counting matches with eregi() From: Paul Tuohy (pablo_100 <email protected>)
Date: 11/15/00

I want to count the number of times a word appears in a string. I am using
php3/linux

Say I have a string:

$string = "my house is a new house but not a big house in my household"

I want to count how many times the word 'house' appears. If I use
parentheses and include a $matches array in an eregi function, it stores
partial matches, not a count of full matches in the entire string.

Also the manual says that word boundary \b should work with php3, but the
series of statments:

$pattern = "\bhouse\b"
$test = eregi($pattern, $string, $matches);

return with no matches. I need to make sure that 'household' is not included
in the count of whole words. what am i doing wrong?

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