How do I highlight differences between strings?

[shadowcaster]

Hello. I'm not sure if this is a newbie question but imagine I have two strings:
[code]
$string1 = "The quick brown brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.";
$string2 = "The quick brown albino fox jumps over the groovy dog.";
[/code]

How would I compare the strings and then highlight the differences compared to $string1 so that the words albino and groovy stand out?

[sanfly]

Is this what you were after?

[code]<? $string1 = "The quick brown brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.";
    $string2 = "The quick brown albino fox jumps over the groovy dog.";
    
    $string1 = explode(" ", $string1);
    $string2 = explode(" ", $string2);
    
    $i = 0;
    foreach($string2 as $value){
        if($value != $string1[$i]){
            echo "<b>$value </b>";
        }
        else {
            echo "$value ";
        }
        $i++;
    } ?>[/code]

[kenrbnsn]

One minor change to the above solution will alliviate the space the end of the new string... This procedure assumes the strings are of equal length.

[code]<?php
$string1 = "The quick brown brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.";
    $string2 = "The quick brown albino fox jumps over the groovy dog.";
    
    $string1 = explode(" ", $string1);
    $string2 = explode(" ", $string2);
    $tmp = array();
    
     foreach($string2 as $k=>$value){
        if($value != $string1[$k]){
            $tmp[] = "<b>$value </b>";
        }
        else {
            $tmp[] = $value;
        }       $i++;
    }
    echo implode(' ',$tmp);
?>[/code]

Ken

[shadowcaster]

Cheers guys :)

[Barand]

This version will show [b]added [/b]and [missing] words.

[code]
    $string1 = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.";
    $string2 = "The quick brown albino fox jumps the groovy dog.";

    $string1 = explode(" ", $string1);
    $string2 = explode(" ", $string2);

    $diff = array_intersect($string2, $string1);

    $tmp = array();
    foreach ($string2 as $k => $w) {
             if ($diff[$k]==$w) {
                 $tmp[$k] = $w;
             }
             else {
                   $tmp[$k] = "<b>$w</b>";
             }
    }
    $diff = array_diff($string1, $tmp);

    foreach ($diff as $k => $w) {
             $tmp[$k] .= " [<strike>$w</strike>]";
    }

    echo join (' ', $tmp);[/code]