Im trying to make a naughty word filter. It removes bad words fine, but instances where there is a bad word found in the text like "assist" and "asses" get caught in the filter as well. Strangely though if the sentence is: My asses to assist me." the clean version will read: My asses to ***ist me." It seems to clear the first use of the word in another word, but then blocks the rest. Any ideas? My script is below. Thanks.

function cleanWords($value) {

    /*   strip naughty words   */
    $bad_word_file = 'standards/badwords.txt';
    $strtofile = fopen($bad_word_file, "r");
    $badwords = explode("\n", fread($strtofile, filesize($bad_word_file)));
    fclose($strtofile);
    
    for ($i = 0; $i < count($badwords); $i++) {
        $wordlist .= str_replace(chr(13),'',$badwords[$i]).'|';
    }
    $wordlist = substr($wordlist,0,-1);

    $value = preg_replace("/\b($wordlist)\b/ie", 'preg_replace("/./","*","\\1")', $value);    
    return $value;

}

Since your replacing by word bounderies, then the only why it would catch that is if the word asses was in the badwords.txt