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The forum discusses how to match a word within a large text file in PHP. The original poster asks for a flexible method to find a word that may change in the future. Respondents recommend using regex with the preg_match() function, with one example showing how to match the word "forum" in large text content, highlighting regular expressions as an effective approach. Overall, the thread provides practical solutions for searching words in PHP.

Gabriel Turqos

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I have an applications developed with PHP. I have a big text file where I want to match for a word but this can be change in the feature. How can I match a word in PHP?
 

Neemobeer

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Use regex
such as
\b(?i)word\b would match the word 'word' and ignore case and the \b's are word boundaries.