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Get first 100 characters from string, respecting full words
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Closed 8 years ago.
How to make string shorter by cut it on the last word?
like example, allowed symbols are 10, and echo only these words which fits in this limit.
$string = 'Hello Hello John Doe'
// Limit 10. Expected result:
$string = 'Hello'
// Limit 12. Expected result:
$string = 'Hello Hello'
...
All I can find in manual is cutting string by symbols, not by words. There are some custom functions to do so, but maybe there are php command for this?
This should work:
$str = "i have google too";
$strarr = explode(" ", $str);
$res = "";
foreach($strarr as $k)
{
if (strlen($res.$k)<10)
{
$res .= $k." ";
}
else
{
break;
};
}
echo $res;
http://codepad.org/NP9t4IRi
Tried to edit Mike's answer, to fix the last word thing, but was not able to.
So here is his solution with the fix:
$str = "Hello Hello My name is Hal";
$len = 10;
if ( strlen( $str ) > $len )
{
$out = substr($str,0,$len);
if ( $str[$len] != ' ')
{
$out = substr($out,0,strrpos($out,' '));
}
}
echo $out; // Hello
Edit: update version to cope with word breaks better.
This shouldn't be too difficult. Truncate to the maximum length, then truncate to the last space. Add an adjustment for lengths that fall on the end of words
<?php
$str = "Hello Hello My name is Hal";
for ($i = 3; $i <30;$i++) {
echo "'".trunc($str,$i)."'\n";
}
function trunc($str, $len) {
$str.=' ';
$out = substr($str,0,$len+1);
$out = substr($out,0,strrpos($out,' '));
return trim($out);
}
Here's a codepad version
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I want to get the text and print every words backwards.
Example: Hello World
Output: World hello
This is my codes so far. It is different, I get output backwards but per string.
$string = "hello world";
$length = strlen($string);
for ($i=($length-1) ; $i >= 0 ; $i--)
{
echo $string[$i];
}
Output of the above code is:
dlrow olleh
Another way to do it with array_reverse(),
<?php
$str = 'Hello World';
$strArray = explode(" ", $str);
$strArray = array_reverse($strArray);
$str = implode($strArray, " ");
echo $str;
?>
DEMO: https://3v4l.org/ZfEqQ
I want to count the frequency of occurrences of all the letters in a string. Say I have
$str = "cdcdcdcdeeeef";
I can use str_split and array_count_values to achieve this.
array_count_values(str_split($str));
Wondering if there is another way to do this without converting the string to an array? Thanks
You don't have to convert that into an array() you can use substr_count() to achieve the same.
substr_count — Count the number of substring occurrences
<?php
$str = "cdcdcdcdeeeef";
echo substr_count($str, 'c');
?>
PHP Manual
substr_count() returns the number of times the needle substring occurs in the haystack string. Please note that needle is case sensitive.
EDIT:
Sorry for the misconception, you can use count_chars to have a counted value of each character in a string. An example:
<?php
$str = "cdcdcdcdeeeef";
foreach (count_chars($str, 1) as $strr => $value) {
echo chr($strr) . " occurred a number of $value times in the string." . "<br>";
}
?>
PHP Manual: count_chars
count_chars — Return information about characters used in a string
There is a php function that returns information about characters used in a string: count_chars
Well it might not be what you are looking for, because according to http://php.net/manual/en/function.count-chars.php it
Counts the number of occurrences of every byte-value (0..255) in
string and returns it in various ways
Example from same link (http://php.net/manual/en/function.count-chars.php):
<?php
$data = "Two Ts and one F.";
foreach (count_chars($data, 1) as $i => $val) {
echo "There were $val instance(s) of \"" , chr($i) , "\" in the string.\n";
}
?>
class Strings
{
public function count_of_each_letter($string){
$string_chars = array();
$length_ = mb_strlen($string,'UTF-8');
if($length_== 0){return null;}
else{
for ($i=0; $i < $length_; $i++) {
$each_letter = mb_substr($string,0,1,'UTF-8');
$string_chars[$each_letter] = mb_substr_count($string, $each_letter);
$string = str_replace($each_letter,"", $string);
$length_ = mb_strlen($string,'UTF-8');
}
$string = '';
foreach ($string_chars as $key => $value) {
$string .= $key.'-'.$value.'<br>';
}
return $string;
}
}
}
$new_counter = new Strings();
echo $new_counter::count_of_each_letter('ختواجرایآهنگبهصورتتکنفرهنمود.اوازسال۱۹۷۲تا۱۹۷۵،۴آلبوماستودیوییتک‌نفرهمنتشرکردوحتینامزدیکجایزهاسکارهمشد.درهمینسال‌هاگروهاقدامبهبرگزاریتورکنسرتدراروپاونیزیکتورجهانیکردند.جکسونفایودرسال۱۹۷۵ازشرکتنشرموسیقیموتاونرکوردزبهسی‌بی‌اسرکوردزنقلمکانکردند.گروههمچنانبهاجراهایبین‌المللیخودادامهمی‌دادواز۱۹۷۶تا۱۹۸۴(از۱۵تا۲۴سالگیمایکل)ششآلبوماستودیوییدیگرمنتشرکرد.درهمینمدت،مایکلترانه‌سرایاصلیگروهجکسونزبود.Cantional,oderGesangbuchAugsburgischerKonfessionin1627.ohannSebastianBachcomposedafour-partsetting,BWV285,whichiswithouttext.twaspublishedasNo.196inthecollectionofchoralesbyJohannPhilippKirnbergerundCarlPhilippEmanufread');
you can do it by following way as well:
$str = 'aabbbccccdddeeedfff';
$arr = str_split($str);
$result = array_count_values($arr);
$string = http_build_query($result,'','');
echo str_replace('=','',$string);
I want to CaPiTaLiZe $string in php, don't ask why :D
I made some research and found good answers here, they really helped me.
But, in my case I want to start capitalizing every odd character (1,2,3...) in EVERY word.
For example, with my custom function i'm getting this result "TeSt eXaMpLe" and want to getting this "TeSt ExAmPlE".
See that in second example word "example" starts with capital "E"?
So, can anyone help me? : )
Well I would just make it an array and then put it back together again.
<?php
$str = "test example";
$str_implode = str_split($str);
$caps = true;
foreach($str_implode as $key=>$letter){
if($caps){
$out = strtoupper($letter);
if($out <> " ") //not a space character
$caps = false;
}
else{
$out = strtolower($letter);
$caps = true;
}
$str_implode[$key] = $out;
}
$str = implode('',$str_implode);
echo $str;
?>
Demo: http://codepad.org/j8uXM97o
I would use regex to do this, since it is concise and easy to do:
$str = 'I made some research and found good answers here, they really helped me.';
$str = preg_replace_callback('/(\w)(.?)/', 'altcase', $str);
echo $str;
function altcase($m){
return strtoupper($m[1]).$m[2];
}
Outputs: "I MaDe SoMe ReSeArCh AnD FoUnD GoOd AnSwErS HeRe, ThEy ReAlLy HeLpEd Me."
Example
Here's a one liner that should work.
preg_replace('/(\w)(.)?/e', "strtoupper('$1').strtolower('$2')", 'test example');
http://codepad.org/9LC3SzjC
Try:
function capitalize($string){
$return= "";
foreach(explode(" ",$string) as $w){
foreach(str_split($w) as $k=>$v) {
if(($k+1)%2!=0 && ctype_alpha($v)){
$return .= mb_strtoupper($v);
}else{
$return .= $v;
}
}
$return .= " ";
}
return $return;
}
echo capitalize("I want to CaPiTaLiZe string in php, don't ask why :D");
//I WaNt To CaPiTaLiZe StRiNg In PhP, DoN'T AsK WhY :D
Edited: Fixed the lack of special characters in the output.
This task can be performed without using capture groups -- just use ucfirst().
This is not built to process multibyte characters.
Grab a word character then, optionally, the next character. From the fullstring match, only change the case of the first character.
Code: (Demo) (or Demo)
$strings = [
"test string",
"lado lomidze needs a solution",
"I made some research and found 'good' answers here; they really helped me."
]; // if not already all lowercase, use strtolower()
var_export(preg_replace_callback('/\w.?/', function ($m) { return ucfirst($m[0]); }, $strings));
Output:
array (
0 => 'TeSt StRiNg',
1 => 'LaDo LoMiDzE NeEdS A SoLuTiOn',
2 => 'I MaDe SoMe ReSeArCh AnD FoUnD \'GoOd\' AnSwErS HeRe; ThEy ReAlLy HeLpEd Me.',
)
For other researchers, if you (more simply) just want to convert every other character to uppercase, you could use /..?/ in your pattern, but using regex for this case would be overkill. You could more efficiently use a for() loop and double-incrementation.
Code (Demo)
$string = "test string";
for ($i = 0, $len = strlen($string); $i < $len; $i += 2) {
$string[$i] = strtoupper($string[$i]);
}
echo $string;
// TeSt sTrInG
// ^-^-^-^-^-^-- strtoupper() was called here
In simplest terms im trying to change the data string if more than 4 spaces are found within quotations. I'm able to do this on a simple string but not within exploded quotes as it becomes an array which count functions wont accept. Is there a regex to do what im looking for in this case or something?
$data = 'Hello World "This is a test string! Jack and Jill went up the hill."';
$halt = 'String had more than 4 spaces.';
$arr = explode('"', $data);
if (substr_count($arr, ' ') >= 4) {
$data = implode('"', $arr);
$data = $halt;
As far as I understand your request, this will do the job
$data = 'Hello World "This is a test string! Jack and Jill went up the hill."';
$halt = 'String had more than 4 spaces.';
// split $data on " and captures them
$arr = preg_split('/(")/', $data, -1, PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE);
// must we count spaces ?
$countspace = 0;
foreach ($arr as $str) {
// swap $countspace when " is encountered
if ($str == '"') $countspace = !$countspace;
// we have to count spaces
if ($countspace) {
// more than 4 spaces
if (substr_count($str, ' ') >= 4) {
// change data
$data = $halt;
break;
}
}
}
echo $data,"\n";
output:
String had more than 4 spaces.
If you define:
function count_spaces($str) {return substr_count($str, ' '); }
you can then use array_sum(array_map("count_spaces", $arr)) to count all of the spaces in all of the strings in $arr.
I'm looking for a way that I can extract the first letter of each word from an input field and place it into a variable.
Example: if the input field is "Stack-Overflow Questions Tags Users" then the output for the variable should be something like "SOQTU"
$s = 'Stack-Overflow Questions Tags Users';
echo preg_replace('/\b(\w)|./', '$1', $s);
the same as codaddict's but shorter
For unicode support, add the u modifier to regex: preg_replace('...../u',
Something like:
$s = 'Stack-Overflow Questions Tags Users';
if(preg_match_all('/\b(\w)/',strtoupper($s),$m)) {
$v = implode('',$m[1]); // $v is now SOQTU
}
I'm using the regex \b(\w) to match the word-char immediately following the word boundary.
EDIT:
To ensure all your Acronym char are uppercase, you can use strtoupper as shown.
Just to be completely different:
$input = 'Stack-Overflow Questions Tags Users';
$acronym = implode('',array_diff_assoc(str_split(ucwords($input)),str_split(strtolower($input))));
echo $acronym;
$initialism = preg_replace('/\b(\w)\w*\W*/', '\1', $string);
If they are separated by only space and not other things. This is how you can do it:
function acronym($longname)
{
$letters=array();
$words=explode(' ', $longname);
foreach($words as $word)
{
$word = (substr($word, 0, 1));
array_push($letters, $word);
}
$shortname = strtoupper(implode($letters));
return $shortname;
}
Regular expression matching as codaddict says above, or str_word_count() with 1 as the second parameter, which returns an array of found words. See the examples in the manual. Then you can get the first letter of each word any way you like, including substr($word, 0, 1)
The str_word_count() function might do what you are looking for:
$words = str_word_count ('Stack-Overflow Questions Tags Users', 1);
$result = "";
for ($i = 0; $i < count($words); ++$i)
$result .= $words[$i][0];
function initialism($str, $as_space = array('-'))
{
$str = str_replace($as_space, ' ', trim($str));
$ret = '';
foreach (explode(' ', $str) as $word) {
$ret .= strtoupper($word[0]);
}
return $ret;
}
$phrase = 'Stack-Overflow Questions IT Tags Users Meta Example';
echo initialism($phrase);
// SOQITTUME
$s = "Stack-Overflow Questions IT Tags Users Meta Example";
$sArr = explode(' ', ucwords(strtolower($s)));
$sAcr = "";
foreach ($sArr as $key) {
$firstAlphabet = substr($key, 0,1);
$sAcr = $sAcr.$firstAlphabet ;
}
using answer from #codaddict.
i also thought in a case where you have an abbreviated word as the word to be abbreviated e.g DPR and not Development Petroleum Resources, so such word will be on D as the abbreviated version which doesn't make much sense.
function AbbrWords($str,$amt){
$pst = substr($str,0,$amt);
$length = strlen($str);
if($length > $amt){
return $pst;
}else{
return $pst;
}
}
function AbbrSent($str,$amt){
if(preg_match_all('/\b(\w)/',strtoupper($str),$m)) {
$v = implode('',$m[1]); // $v is now SOQTU
if(strlen($v) < 2){
if(strlen($str) < 5){
return $str;
}else{
return AbbrWords($str,$amt);
}
}else{
return AbbrWords($v,$amt);
}
}
}
As an alternative to #user187291's preg_replace() pattern, here is the same functionality without needing a reference in the replacement string.
It works by matching the first occurring word characters, then forgetting it with \K, then it will match zero or more word characters, then it will match zero or more non-word characters. This will consume all of the unwanted characters and only leave the first occurring word characters. This is ideal because there is no need to implode an array of matches. The u modifier ensures that accented/multibyte characters are treated as whole characters by the regex engine.
Code: (Demo)
$tests = [
'Stack-Overflow Questions Tags Users',
'Stack Overflow Close Vote Reviewers',
'Jean-Claude Vandàmme'
];
var_export(
preg_replace('/\w\K\w*\W*/u', '', $tests)
);
Output:
array (
0 => 'SOQTU',
1 => 'SOCVR',
2 => 'JCV',
)