Re: split on whitespace, preserving whitespace...

Yup, I hear that... I'm going to use something like the following to do my pspell application... <pre> <?PHP $text = "This contans (brackets) {white} shaz-zam this_under space; ."; $matches = preg_split("/([\.\;\:\!\{\}\(\)\s]+)/",$text,-1, PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE); echo "<pre>[$text]<br>[". implode('|',$matches)."]</pre>"; ?> </pre> On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 15:11:26 -0500 "Brad S. Jackson" wrote: > > > I got this to work. I wish I had found this when I wrote our pspell > code. I > wrote code that loops through each character to get the words and > preserve white > space. I also wrote a whole bunch of code that strips punctuation > from the > beginning and end of words and has regex checking for numbers, dates > and times. > > $text = "This is a lotta > text. How do you like that?"; > > preg_match_all("/(\\S+)|(\\s+)/ms", $text, $array); > > echo "<pre>"; > print_r($array[1]); > > > Garth Dahlstrom <garth@utmail.to> 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]),'.,/')) > { > //check spelling > //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 > > Northern.CA ===--- > http://www.northern.ca > > Northern.CA ===-- http://www.northern.ca Canada's Search Engine