On Tuesday 17 May 2005 13:00, Merlin wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I am trying to find a way to count the number of times (if any) words are
> inside a string. So I played around with ereg, preg_match_all and so on,
> but could not put together a working code.
>
> Can anybody help me on that?
>
> This is the current code:
> function count_words($str, $words) {
> if(is_array($words)) {
> foreach($words as $k => $word) {
> $pattern[$k] = "/\b($word)\b/is";
> }
> }
> else {
> $pattern = "/\b($words)\b/is";
> }
> return ereg( $pattern, $str);
> }
> $words = 'php language';
> $str = 'One language which is great is php. PHP works great!';
> $num_hits = count_words($str, $word);
> echo $num_hits;
>
> I would like to get an case insensitive result. In this example: 3http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.substr-count.php Try this. > > I am a bit lost on this one. Thank you for any help. > > Merlin -- Cyberly yours, Petar Nedyalkov Devoted Orbitel Fan :-) PGP ID: 7AE45436 PGP Public Key: http://bu.orbitel.bg/pgp/bu.asc PGP Fingerprint: 7923 8D52 B145 02E8 6F63 8BDA 2D3F 7C0B 7AE4 5436
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