Can we make it better code ??

[salman_ahad@yahoo.com]

My code

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<?php

if ($_POST['Submit'])

{

$para = $_POST['para'];

}

$sentence = split('[.!?]',$para);

foreach ($sentence as $final)

{ 

if (empty($final))

    continue;

 

else {

$final = ltrim($final,'"');

$final = ltrim($final,',');

$final = ltrim($final,'\"');

$final = ltrim($final,'S');

$final = ltrim($final,'.');

 

 

if(strlen($final) <= 120)

echo $final.'.<br />';

else

echo substr($final,0,120). '...Read More.<br />';

}

}

?>

 

I am trying to input a paragraph and split it into sentences.

Some output sentences are proper and some are having errors

 

Few output error sentences are starting like this

--------------------------------------------

1).          //A sentence cannot start with a period

 

2)\"There are ....      //A sentence cannot start with \"

 

[salman_ahad@yahoo.com]

Any help ????

[lemmin]

Try using explode()

$sentences = explode(". ", $paragraph);

[MadTechie]

Read ltrim in the manual

charlist

You can also specify the characters you want to strip, by means of the charlist parameter. Simply list all characters that you want to be stripped. With .. you can specify a range of characters.

[salman_ahad@yahoo.com]

ltrim is not working.

 

I also tried

{

....

$sentences = split('[.!?]',$para);

 

$sentences = ltrim($sentences,'\"');

 

i also tried

 

$bad = array("\xc2","\x80","\x8c","\x9d","\x98","\x99");

$find[] = '“';  // left side double smart quote

$find[] = 'â€';  // right side double smart quote

  $find[] = '‘';  // left side single smart quote

$find[] = '’';  // right side single smart quote

$find[] = '…';  // elipsis

$find[] = '—';  // em dash

$find[] = '–';  // en dash

 

  $replace[] = '"';

  $replace[] = '"';

$replace[] = "'";

  $replace[] = "'";

  $replace[] = "...";

  $replace[] = "-";

  $replace[] = "-";

 

foreach ($sentences as $final)

{

str_replace($find,$replace,$final);

str_replace($bad,"",$final);

 

I TRIED EVERYTHING, BUT THE QUOTES DOESN'T SEEM TO BE GOING FROM MY SENTENCES FORMED...

 

[MadTechie]

Works fine for me

$string = array(".A sentence cannot start with a period",'"A sentence cannot start with " (quote)');
foreach($string as $s){
$s = ltrim($s,".\"");
echo "$s<br>\n";
}

 

A sentence cannot start with a period<br>

A sentence cannot start with " (quote)<br>

 

 

 

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