Re: [PHP] Counting Capital Letters
At 12:32 AM +0100 6/21/07, Richard Davey wrote: Hi, I've written a short regexp which will *count* how many capital letters are in a given string (the woefully simple: '/[A-Z]/') Although it's an English language web site, I'm curious how you'd count capital letters that span beyond just the standard A-Z. For example characters such as the Latin capital letter S with Acute. I'm not interested in covering all possible character sets, but I don't want to piss-off any Europeans who may register on the site and want to use one of "their own" capital letters. Anyone approached this before? Cheers, Rich Rich: Can't say that I have, but try this off the top of my head: 1. Explode the string into two arrays (array1, array2); 2. Lowercase one array; 3. Use array_dif. 4 Count array_dif. Cheers, tedd -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Counting Capital Letters
On 21/06/07, Richard Davey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
I've written a short regexp which will *count* how many capital letters
are in a given string (the woefully simple: '/[A-Z]/')
Although it's an English language web site, I'm curious how you'd
count capital letters that span beyond just the standard A-Z.
For example characters such as the Latin capital letter S with Acute.
I'm not interested in covering all possible character sets, but I
don't want to piss-off any Europeans who may register on the site and
want to use one of "their own" capital letters.
Anyone approached this before?
It'd probably be a good start to use [[:upper:]] rather than [A-Z].
There's also \p{Lu} if you use utf-8 mode which matches utf-8
characters with the uppercase letter property.
-robin
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[PHP] Counting Capital Letters
Hi, I've written a short regexp which will *count* how many capital letters are in a given string (the woefully simple: '/[A-Z]/') Although it's an English language web site, I'm curious how you'd count capital letters that span beyond just the standard A-Z. For example characters such as the Latin capital letter S with Acute. I'm not interested in covering all possible character sets, but I don't want to piss-off any Europeans who may register on the site and want to use one of "their own" capital letters. Anyone approached this before? Cheers, Rich -- Zend Certified Engineer http://www.corephp.co.uk "Never trust a computer you can't throw out of a window" -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
