diff --git a/libs/plugins/modifier.regex_replace.php b/libs/plugins/modifier.regex_replace.php
index 0695f531..ca082ff2 100644
--- a/libs/plugins/modifier.regex_replace.php
+++ b/libs/plugins/modifier.regex_replace.php
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
  *
  * Type:     modifier<br>
  * Name:     regex_replace<br>
- * Purpose:  regular epxression search/replace
+ * Purpose:  regular expression search/replace
  * @link http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/language.modifier.regex.replace.php
  *          regex_replace (Smarty online manual)
  * @author   Monte Ohrt <monte at ohrt dot com>
@@ -22,10 +22,11 @@
  */
 function smarty_modifier_regex_replace($string, $search, $replace)
 {
-    if (preg_match('!\W(\w+)$!s', $search, $match) && (strpos($match[1], 'e') !== false)) {
+    if (preg_match('!\W([\w\s]+)$!s', $search, $match) && (strpos($match[1], 'e') !== false)) {
         /* remove eval-modifier from $search */
-        $search = substr($search, 0, -strlen($match[1])) . str_replace('e', '', $match[1]);
+        $search = substr($search, 0, -strlen($match[1])) . str_replace(array(' ','e'), array('',''), $match[1]);
     }
+    
     return preg_replace($search, $replace, $string);
 }