HI

I thank you very much for your quick and wise response. I am sorry if I was not able to make it clear. I guess what I need is to catch any punctuation or special charecters between the word penis....
ie: p*e^n$i@s/ etc. If I can only catch those and leave letters a-z alone, it would serve the purpose.

And also it would greatly help and I would be very thankful if you can explain $regex line and all the charecters used and their purpose..... I thank you very much. Thanks