Re: split on whitespace, preserving whitespace...

http://www.zend.com/zend/spotlight/spellchecking.php ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Read" <dread@texas.net> To: "Garth Dahlstrom" <garth@utmail.to> Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> 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 dread@texas.net > -- It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you are going to > steal the neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it. > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >