RE: [PHP] Regex function needed

what about words at the start of the string?? eg $str = "One can see this is or was a test for short words, although an, should be deleted to."; -----Original Message----- From: Edward van Bilderbeek - Bean IT [mailto:edward@bean-it.nl] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 10:47 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net; Michael Kimsal Subject: Re: [PHP] Regex function needed this might even work beter, to take comma's and periods etecetera into account to: $str = "This is or was a test for short words, although an, should be deleted to."; while (ereg(" [a-z]{1,3} ", $str)) { $str = eregi_replace(" [a-z']{1,3}([ ]{1}|[,]{1}|[.]{1}|[:]{1})", "\\1", $str); } or even this for comma's etcetera before the words: $str = "This is or was a test for short words, although an, should be deleted to."; while (ereg(" [a-z]{1,3} ", $str)) { $str = eregi_replace("([ ]{1}|[,]{1}|[.]{1}|[:]{1})[a-z']{1,3}([ ]{1}|[,]{1}|[.]{1} |[:]{1})", "\\2", $str); } Greets, Edward print $str; ----- Original Message ----- From: "Edward van Bilderbeek - Bean IT" <edward@bean-it.nl> To: <php-general@lists.php.net>; "Michael Kimsal" <michael@tapinternet.com> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 12:33 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] Regex function needed > I don't know if this is the best way but: > > $str = "This is or was a test for short words"; > > while (ereg(" [a-z]{1,3} ", $str)) { > $str = eregi_replace(" [a-z]{1,3} ", " ", $str); > } > print $str; > > > this replaces all occurences of a space followed by 1,2 or 3 alphabetic > characters followed by a space... the reason why it's performed in a while > loop is because of two or more short words following each other and thus > sharing a space... > > > Greets, > > Edward > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael Kimsal" <michael@tapinternet.com> > To: <php-general@lists.php.net> > Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 11:58 PM > Subject: [PHP] Regex function needed > > > > Looking for a regex (preg or ereg) to remove > > all 1, 2 and 3 character words. > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php