string help

[pouncer]

Say for e.g, i have a sentence:

 

"Hello, my name is Johnny and I like DVD's"

 

How do I extract each word from the sentence and echo it? and also, i want remove any ' from any words, and also if the word ends in s, i want it to remove the s. so with this sentence it shud echo:

 

Hello

my

name

is

Johnny

and

I

like

DVD

 

can anyone help me achieve this?

[tarun]

Not Sure But Probably preg_match

[clown[NOR]]

maybe using str_replace and then adding the fixed string to an array?

 

that's what I would have tried first

[pouncer]

str_replace for what mate?

 

hmm, im not sure how to do it.

 

can anyone give any sample codes?

[fert]

$string=str_replace("'","",$string);
$string=str_ireplace("'s","",$string); //only works for php 5
$words=explode(" ",$string);
print_r($words);

[clown[NOR]]

yeah... i was just writing something simular but got this message:

 

Warning - while you were typing a new reply has been posted. You may wish to review your post.

 

but then again fert... he needs to remove that ugly Array ( ) hehe...

 

add this below what fert said:

foreach ($words as $word) {
echo $word."<br>";
}

 

think that should do it for you

[pouncer]

is there a way i can put all my replace in 1 function like

 

str_replace("'", "", ".", "", ...... etc...)

[pouncer]

and also i cant use

 

$string=str_ireplace("'s","",$string); //only works for php 5

 

because mine isnt php5

 

any other ways to replace "'s" with "" ?

[clown[NOR]]

read here

http://no.php.net/str_replace

[pouncer]

thanks clown.

 

ive got this

 

$string = "My favourite DVD's!";

$un_needed = array("!", "'s", "'");
$string = str_replace($un_needed, "", $string);

 

any other characters you can think to replace with blank?

[clown[NOR]]

dunno... why do you want to replace them anyway?

[pouncer]

because i send each word to a site to see if its a noun or an adjective

[per1os]

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.str-word-count.php

 

Does not get much easier than that:

 

<?php
$str = "Hello, my name is Johnny and I like DVD's";
$wordArr = str_word_count($str, 1);

foreach ($wordArr as $word)
    print $word . "<br />";
?>

 

[clown[NOR]]

haha... nice one frost110 =) well glad you're back... i just learned something new to now =)