How to get separate words from string?

100faces

Hi guys,

I have a long string like "word1 word2 ..... wordN" (every string is a value of multidimensional array) and I want to get each single word from the text and to put it in a HTML table.

Help will be apreciated.

Cheers,
M.

Weedpacket

Like [man]explode[/man](' ', $string)?

100faces

Hi Weedpacket,

Every string has a lot of empty spaces between the words and even if I try to use str_replace it counts the spaces as strings,so if I explode the text to an array the delimiter could not be set in a proper way.
I tried some string functions like strpos for finding the place of each word I want and substr for taking it out (I know the lenght of the chars that the word contains).
First I tried to trim the string and it worked fine,but when I tried to replace the spaces between the words with commas ... it appeared in that way .. "word,,,,word,,,,,,,,,,,word,,,,word" and so on.
I wanted to delimit the text just to create a csv file.
Any suggestions?

Cheers,
M.

cahva

So would something like this work?

$tmp = explode(' ',$string);
$words = array():
foreach ($tmp as $v)
{
    if (strlen($v)>0)
    {
        $words[] = $v;
    }
}

$words_string = implode(',',$words);

Installer

Or to get a comma-separated list of individuals words:

while (strpos($string, '  ') !== false) {
    $string = str_replace('  ', ' ', $string);
}
$string = str_replace(' ', ',', trim($string));

For an array, just change the last line to:

$arr = explode(' ', trim($string));

100faces

Kiitos,cahva 🙂 Tämä komentosarja toimii hyvin 🙂

to Installer: Thank you 🙂 this code I was searching for.

Anyway I solved it somehow with finding positions of strings and counting the lenght of each.
Now every word inside the text has a value and I hope (crossing fingers to work) is ready for further processes.

this is what I got:

$pos = strpos($text," SU ", 1)." ";
$pos1 = strpos($text,"PCE",1)." " ;
// echo $pos1 ;

$supp = substr($text,590,14) ;
// echo $supp ;

$buy = substr($text,1077,14) ;
// echo $buy ;

$DP = substr($text,1565,14) ;
// echo $DP ;
$where = substr($text,1579,185) ;
// echo $where." " ;
$SN = substr($text,2053,14) ;
//echo $SN ;
$CO = substr($text,2541,14) ;
// echo $CO ;
$TXT = substr ($text,3023,38) ;
// echo $TXT."<br>" ;

can I use the vars to send them to a table?

Weedpacket

Oh, if there are multiple spaces between words....

$words = preg_split('/\s+/', $string);

Where tabs and linebreaks (if any) count as "spaces between words".

100faces wrote:
Anyway I solved it somehow with finding positions of strings and counting the lenght of each.

Sounds like your string of words has a lot more structure than you've described. More information about the format will probably elicit more appropriate solutions.