Re: counting matches with eregi()

On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Paul Tuohy wrote: > I want to count the number of times a word appears in a string. I am using > php3/linux > > Say I have a string: > > $string = "my house is a new house but not a big house in my household" > > I want to count how many times the word 'house' appears. If I use > parentheses and include a $matches array in an eregi function, it stores > partial matches, not a count of full matches in the entire string. > > Also the manual says that word boundary \b should work with php3, but the > series of statments: > > $pattern = "\bhouse\b" > $test = eregi($pattern, $string, $matches); > > return with no matches. I need to make sure that 'household' is not included > in the count of whole words. what am i doing wrong? > No, \b works with preg*(), not ereg*(). You probably want something like "[^[:alnum:]]house[^[:alnum:]]". -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ignacio@openservices.net>