Character Grouping

It's me again. I posted the previous Character Printing.

Well, I need to print out this string (See output):

$string = "Tha^.t Va^.y Ma`";

Output:

T
h
a^.
t
V
a^.
y
M
a`

There are 3 words in the string. They are: That Vay Ma.

As you can see, anything that is not an alphabet will print out together (the same lines) with the previous alphabet, and also print the words.

Thank in advance,

Chris

Can you include the code you're using to split the characters?

-Rich

that's what I need... I need the code can do that.

Thanks,

Christ

for ($i = 0; $i < strlen($somestring); $i++) {
echo substr($somestring,$i,1) . '<BR>';
}

Here's a solution for you. Not the most elegant...I kept the steps seperated so you can see what's going on:

<?php

$string = "Tha^.t Va^.y Ma`";

$words = split( ' ', $string );

foreach( $words as $word ) {
preg_match_all( "/(\w([^.`]*))/", $word, $matches );
foreach( $matches[0] as $match )
print $match . "<br>\n";
}

print "There are " . count( $words ) . " in the string. They are";
foreach( $words as $word )
print ' ' . preg_replace( "/[^.`]/", '', $word );

print ".<br>\n";

-Rich