Less Restrictive Word Censorship

[majoreyeswater]

I hope someone can help on the censorship/word replacement, have looked through the older threads, but most seem to deal with complete word replacement using variable replacement (which I am a tad nervous about) or simply changing the censorship characters...

What I'd like is a censorship feature, that censors pre-defined words, but not so that you can't actually tell what they are.

For instance if someone typed:

Manchester

what I'd like to see is

M********r



This way, people can identify the intent in the post, but won't suffer from the trauma of seeing the words manchester (replace with any suitable offensive word - although Manchester is pretty bad where I come from... )

ANy help would be appreciated.

[redspider]

on vBulletin Options/Censored Words
add this ancheste so when someone type Manchester
this will show: M********r

[majoreyeswater]

Thanks, but that's not it.

Once you put something in curly brackets, it retricts to that incident.

So {ancheste} would put ancheste as ******** but Manchester would still work.

I suppose I could simply put ancheste without branckets, but my problem there I some words i want to block, but if i block out bits of them inroder to get selective censorship, there are occasions where the same combination of letters exist in a non-offensive word that i might want.

Eg.

If someone entered... (apologies for any offence, simply for research purposes...)

b a s t a r d - what I'd like to see is b*****d

Now, if I censored 'astar', then if someone entered dastardly (for example) then that would appear as d*****dley, whihc is not what I want.

Again, any help appreciated.

Sorry, think I have posted this in the wrong forum, should have been in VB3... will repost, can someone delete this one for me. Apologies