Daniel Schierbeck wrote:
Chris Boget wrote:
Is there a way to replace/remove *whole* words from a
phrase? For example:
?
$exceptionsList = array( 'the', 'other', 'that', 'a' );
$stringToParse = 'The other lady that laughed';
if( count( $exceptionsList ) 0 ) {
foreach( $exceptionsList as $exceptionPhrase ) {
$stringToParse = str_replace( $exceptionPhrase, '', trim(
$stringToParse ));
}
$retval = trim( $stringToParse );
}
echo 'Retval: ' . $retval . 'br';
?
results in The or ldy lughed and not lady laughed. Using
the other *_replace() functions give the same results. So is
what I'm looking to do even possible?
thnx,
Chris
$exceptions = array('the', , 'other', 'that', 'a');
$string = 'The other lady that laughed';
foreach ($exsceptions as $exception) {
$string = str_replace(' ' . $exception . ' ', '', $string);
}
This won't catch the words at the beginning or end of the string.
Maybe use $string instead of just $string in the str_replace to cheat,
and then http://php.net/trim it.
Also, there's some kind of case-insensitive str_replace, but I never
remember its name... RTFM.
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