[SOLVED] help turning list of words into an array

[Jnerocorp]

Hello,

 

I have a list of almost 900 words the list looks like this in a text file

 

a
able
about
account
acid
across
act
addition
adjustment
advertisement
after
again
against
agreement
air
all
almost
among
amount
amusement
and
angle
angry
animal
answer
ant
any
apparatus
apple
approval
arch
argument
arm
army
art

 

is there a script to turn a list like that into an array like this

 

array('a','able','about','account','acid','across','act','addition');

[Alex]

file() does exactly this, takes the contents of a file and stores each line in an element of an array.

$array = file('sometextfile.txt');

[redarrow]

whale that was grate read cheers alexWD grate function.

 

http://uk3.php.net/manual/en/function.file.php

[.josh]

note: from a text file, you will have the \n (and possibly \r also) newline chars after each word, so you will want to trim each value in the array.  You can do all of them in one go using array_map like this:

 

$array = array_map('trim', file('sometextfile.txt'));

 

[Jnerocorp]

thank you very much also do u know where i can get a large text file list with just english words in it 1 word per line The largest list i could find was one with about 900 words in it

 

Thanks,

John

[.josh]

I have a text file that has like 225,000 words or so.  It is exhaustive and includes many things that are not real "words" per se (like, it has names, proper nouns, etc.. and even a couple acronyms I think...)

 

edit:

 

Actually I have 2 files: 1 with the words and one with the words and their part of speech (like "dolphin\N" N = Noun)

[Alex]

Well, a quick google search returned this:

 

http://www.mieliestronk.com/wordlist.html

 

It has 58,000 words.

[Jnerocorp]

Thats fine if you wouldnt mind letting me using may i have a copy of it?

[.josh]

I'll send it to the email in your profile

[redarrow]

And me big boy lol cheers.......