| preg replace with boundary and array
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haamro
msg:4366536 | 8:56 pm on Sep 23, 2011 (gmt 0) |
Hi there,
I am trying to delete words in the sentence contained in an array.
I cannot use str_replace, because it replaces that character within another word. (e.g. , if I try to delete "is"; "this" becomes "th")
So, I wanted to use preg_replace with boundary, but how do I add "/b" to the array ? ( I don't want to change my array)
$ignore=array("is","a","the");
$sentence="this is the way I want";
My output should be = "this way I want"
thanx
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astupidname
msg:4366651 | 8:08 am on Sep 24, 2011 (gmt 0) |
Assuming $ignore will never contain special characters which would trip up the regular expression, the below should work out if $ignore is always alphabetic words:
$ignore=array("is","a","the");
$sentence="this is the way I want";
//create regular expression, using the items in $ignore,
//which in this case the regular expression will look like: /\b(is|a|the)\b/
$rex = '/\b('.implode('|', $ignore).')\b/';
echo preg_replace($rex, '', $sentence); |
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Note you may want to add an 'i' modifier to make $rex case insensitive:
| $rex = '/\b('.implode('|', $ignore).')\b/i'; |
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haamro
msg:4366683 | 12:08 pm on Sep 24, 2011 (gmt 0) |
Works like a charm !
Thanx for your help :-)
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haamro
msg:4366700 | 2:16 pm on Sep 24, 2011 (gmt 0) |
* Sorry couldn't update previous post.
Thanx astupidname, what if $ignore has unicode character, real unicode word (not अअ)
/i/u didn't work for me.
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penders
msg:4367460 | 6:32 pm on Sep 26, 2011 (gmt 0) |
This should be: /iu
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haamro
msg:4369383 | 1:54 am on Oct 1, 2011 (gmt 0) |
thanx, that worked !
but how do I use \b with /iu ?
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penders
msg:4369448 | 8:12 am on Oct 1, 2011 (gmt 0) |
You should just be able to use them together, as in Readie's code above. Or are you finding that it's not working?
The "/" delimits the regular expression (regex). The "iu" are pattern modifiers and appear after the regex. The "\b" is an escape sequence that appears inside the regex and matches a word boundary (the position between a word and a non-word character).
So, in Readie's code, this becomes...
$rex = '/\b('.implode('|', $ignore).')\b/iu'; |
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Readie
msg:4369529 | 2:32 pm on Oct 1, 2011 (gmt 0) |
| as in Readie's code above |
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:/ I didn't post here :P
| Assuming $ignore will never contain special characters which would trip up the regular expression |
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You can get around this by using the preg_quote() function [uk3.php.net...]
$rex = '/\b('.preg_quote(implode('|', $ignore)).')\b/'; |
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penders
msg:4369539 | 3:20 pm on Oct 1, 2011 (gmt 0) |
lol, sorry! :& I think I must have been flitting between different threads!? I meant "astupidname's code above"...!
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