Re: Listing a few words from one sentence ??

Hey I guess I sort of worded my question wrong, if the sentance says Thank you for helping me with PHP I wanna be able to just have the first four words of the sentence printed so it says Thank you for helping... ".: B I G D O G :." <bigdog@venticon.com> wrote in message news:1036685027.13268.108.camel@pclnxrhunter.digitalglobe.com... > perl regex to find the ones you want and then print them out... > > or you could explode then string and put each word in to one array and > access the word by the array index... > > Example: > > $words = explode( " ", $sentence ); > > for( $i = 0; $i < 4; $i++ ) > { > echo "{$words[$i]}"; > } > > > > On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 22:29, conbud wrote: > > Say I have a sentence that contains 8 words, how do I get PHP to list just 4 > > of those 8 words ? > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- > .: B i g D o g :. > >