string processing question

Given a string: 'aaa bbbb cccc'
or a string: 'aaaa bbb cc'

I want to find and delete any word within a string with 3 or less chars.
so I would get:
'bbbb cccc'
'aaaa'
as results after processing.

How would I do this in PHP?

Thanks

"leegold" <leegold@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Given a string: 'aaa bbbb cccc'
> or a string: 'aaaa bbb cc'
>
> I want to find and delete any word within a string with 3 or less chars.
> so I would get:
> 'bbbb cccc'
> 'aaaa'
> as results after processing.
>
> How would I do this in PHP?
>
> Thanks

preg_replace('/\b\S{1,3}\b\s*/', '', $text) should do it.