[SOLVED] search in string

[snk]

hello,

 

I have a string that indicates name and surname or company, if its company string will have S.A, SA, LTD, L.T.D etc inside the string. if its name will have LISA SMITH inside the string. Mind the liSA. i think that my pattern has to take into consideration the white spaces. I am trying for hours with preg_match but without the desired results I hope someone knows how to resolve it.

 

the pseudo code is below:

 

foreach ($str as $str1)

 

if $str1 has inside S.A or SA or LTD or L.T.D between white spaces

then $form = "company"

else $form = "name"

 

 

thank you in advance

[aschk]

Using preg_match you should have a regular expression something like :

 

$regex = '/(S[.]?A)|(L[.]?T[.]?D)/';

 

I think...

[pdkv2]

<php
$search_co=array("sa","SA","LTD","L.T.D");
$flag=false;
$string="test sa";

$arr = explode(" ",$string);
foreach($search_co as $co){
	if(array_search($co,$arr,true)){
		$flag=true;
		break;
	}		
}
if($flag){
	echo "This is company";
}else{
	echo "This is name";
}

?>

 

[snk]

I use

 

  if (preg_match("/\LTD\b/i", $name)) {
    $form = "company";
} else {
    $form = "name";
}

 

but when $name is for example ACTION LTD $form is still "name" instead of "company" any help?

[aschk]

What exactly is \LTD and \b ???

These should cause a PHP warning.

 

I know that preg_match("/LTD/i", $name) will work. How about you try it

 

In fact if you'd bothered to try my regular expression i posted above you would find that it does EXACTLY the job you require.

[sasa]

try

<?php
$array =array('xltd kfjrkls sltd','x LTD kfjrkls sltd','ltd kfjrkls sltd','xltd kfjrkls s ltd v','xltd kfjrkls s ltd ');
foreach ($array as $a){
$b = preg_match('/(^|\s)((ltd)|(l\.t\.d)|(sa)|(s\.a))( |$)/i',$a);
echo $a, ' --> ', $b, "<br />\n";}
?>

[snk]

@aschk I found this piece of code in php.net it works without errors... ut for others not for me

 

@pdkv2 Thank you SooooOoOoOoooooOO much it works perfectly, is very straight forward to understand it, very easy to add more words and very efficient with the break command... amazing

 

thank you again...

[snk]

@ sasa thank you for your help, I have resolved it with pdkv2's code. I will evaluate your code in an other problem. Thank again for your effort and time

 

Thank you all...