Searching a word with a hyphen

OK. I have a wordlist and a few words contain a hyphen (-).

 

I'm currently using an array_search to search a string with the words from the wordlist, but I think a regular expression would be better.

 

How can I search the string with words from the wordlist the easiest and fastest with preg_match

and fastest

would be to not use regular expressions. What's your code now? I bet it's better than the equivalent preg_match() calls.

I've put them in an array and tried using array_search.

 

But say I got a word in array like "Hyphen-", and I make the word that it'll search to "Hyphen-" it'll work fine.

 

But if I use "Hyphen-Test" it won't.

Post the code you're using, and some of the data that fails when using it.

Post the code you're using, and some of the data that fails when using it.

 

$data = "Hyphen-"; // Would usually be $_POST data
// Hyphen- returns "Worked". Hyphen-Test returns "Didn't".
$blocked = array("Works", "Hyphen", "Hyphen-");
if (array_search($data, $blocked))
{
echo "Worked";
}
else echo "Didn't";

Both of these work properly:

$data = "Hyphen-Test";
$blocked = array("Works", "Hyphen", "Hyphen-Test");
if ( array_search($data, $blocked) !== FALSE ) {
echo "Worked";
} else {
echo "Didn't";
}

// *** AND ***
$data = "Hyphen-";
$blocked = array("Works", "Hyphen", "Hyphen-");
if ( array_search($data, $blocked) !== FALSE ) {
echo "Worked";
} else {
echo "Didn't";
}

 

The change to a comparison using !== FALSE is because array_search returns the array key (which could be zero) if the value is found, or FALSE if the value is not found.

 

EDIT: That change ^^^ would not affect the outcome using the data you provided, however.

Both of these work properly:

$data = "Hyphen-Test";
$blocked = array("Works", "Hyphen", "Hyphen-Test");
if ( array_search($data, $blocked) !== FALSE ) {
echo "Worked";
} else {
echo "Didn't";
}

// *** AND ***
$data = "Hyphen-";
$blocked = array("Works", "Hyphen", "Hyphen-");
if ( array_search($data, $blocked) !== FALSE ) {
echo "Worked";
} else {
echo "Didn't";
}

 

The change to a comparison using !== FALSE is because array_search returns the array key (which could be zero) if the value is found, or FALSE if the value is not found.

 

EDIT: That change ^^^ would not affect the outcome using the data you provided, however.

 

But if I add something after the "Hyphen-" it returns the opposite. 

 

EDIT: I don't think I made the post clear. I need it to search the whole word for that particular phrase. Not matching the blocked word with one word on it's own if you know what I mean

The first block I posted has something after the hyphen, and it works as written.

The first block I posted has something after the hyphen, and it works as written.

But then if I remove the "Test" it returns the opposite. The thing is, it will be $_POST data so it could be anything. I want it to find, let's say: Hyphen- from Hyphen-Test and return it true/false. I want it to search the whole word for a blocked word and if it has it anywhere in the word return true/false.

That isn't the way you explained it to begin with. "hyphen-test" is a hyphenated word, "hyphen-" is a fragment of that word. I think this is more what you're after.

 

$data = "Hyphen-test";

$blocked = array("Works", "Hyphen", "Hyphen-");

foreach( $blocked as $v ) {

if( stripos( $data, $v) !== FALSE ) {

echo "Found!";

break;

}

}

That isn't the way you explained it to begin with. "hyphen-test" is a hyphenated word, "hyphen-" is a fragment of that word. I think this is more what you're after.

 

$data = "Hyphen-test";

$blocked = array("Works", "Hyphen", "Hyphen-");

foreach( $blocked as $v ) {

if( stripos( $data, $v) !== FALSE ) {

echo "Found!";

break;

}

}

 

Yeah, that is what I wanted. I tried to explain it like that in another previous post (I think). Sorry about the confusion and thanks for the help.

That isn't the way you explained it to begin with. "hyphen-test" is a hyphenated word, "hyphen-" is a fragment of that word. I think this is more what you're after.

 

$data = "Hyphen-test";
$blocked = array("Works", "Hyphen", "Hyphen-");
foreach( $blocked as $v ) {
if( stripos( $data, $v) !== FALSE ) {
	echo "Found!";
	break;
}
}

 

That is what I wanted.. but I can't seem to get it to work in a function.

 

This is my current code(It returns as "no" whatever I use as $input):

function test($input)
{
$blocked = array("Works", "Hyphen", "Hyphen-");
foreach( $blocked as $v ) {
if( stripos( $input, $v) !== FALSE ) {
	echo "Found!";
	break;
 }
 else
	{
	echo "no";
	break;
	}
}
}

test("test");

Usually better to just return a value instead of echoing directly from within the function.

 

<?php
function test($input) {
$blocked = array("Works", "Hyphen", "Hyphen-");
foreach( $blocked as $v ) {
	if( stripos( $input, $v) !== FALSE ) {
		return 'Found';
	}
}
return 'Not found';
}
echo test("Hyphen"); // echoes 'Found'
echo '<br>';
echo test("not in the array"); // echoes 'Not found'