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From: "Don Read" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Garth Dahlstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 11:41 PM
Subject: RE: [PHP] split on whitespace, preserving whitespace...
>
> On 20-Jul-2001 Garth Dahlstrom wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm trying to build a spell checker for a web form.
> > What has got me stumped is being able to do a split
> > so that whitespace and words are stored as seperate
> > elements of the same array.
> >
> > ideally, I'd use some form of preg_split to put:
> >
> > "This contans white space ."
> >
> > into an array like:
> >
> > $wordsarr = ('This',' ','contans',' ','white',' ','space',' ','.')
> >
> > So that I can do a a loop as follows:
> >
> > for ($i = 0; $i < count($wordarr); $i++)
> > {
> > if (!trim($wordarr[$i]) == "" && !eregi(trim($wordarr[$i]),'.,/'))
> > {
> > file://check spelling
> > file://correct errors
> > }
> > echo $wordarr[$i];
> > }
> > and end up with:
> > "This contains white space ."
> >
> > can a split like this be accomplished using
> > preg_split or do I need to go through the string
> > one space at a time in a while loop?
> >
> > -Garth
>
> start with preg_split(/^\w+/, $foo);
>
> (read as: split on one or more non-word charachers)
>
>
> Regards,
> --
> Don Read [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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