Please help me with ereg

Hello,

ereg is diprecated. so please help me to replace ereg in below code.

	$answer=true;
	$arr = array
	("select","union","order","by","update","drop","use","group","by","insert","load_file","into","in","to","outfile","having","substr","hex","unhex","where","--","/","\\'","\\"");
	 for($i=0;$i<sizeof($arr);$i++)
	 {
		 if(ereg($arr[$i],strtolower($str))){
				 $answer=false;
		 }
	 }

Give this a whirl

$answer = true;
$arr    = array("select","union","order","by","update","drop","use","group","by","insert","load_file","into","in","to","outfile","having","substr","hex","unhex","where","--","\\/","\\'","\\"");

for($i = 0; $i < sizeof($arr); $i++) {
    if (preg_match('/' . $arr[$i] . '/', strtolower($str))) {
        $answer = false;
    }
}

thanks buddy,
works charm!