Which is the correct way of making strlen return the lenght of several strings put together.
For example if one string is hello and other is jim it should return: 8. (hello=5 jim=3)
I need to get the combined lenght of $array[0] $array[1] $array[2] $array[3] and $array[4]
Thanks
Use implode on it before:
echo strlen(implode($array));
You can also combine it with array_slice if you don't want the whole array:
echo strlen(implode(array_slice($array, 0, 4)));
array_sum(array_map("strlen", $array_of_strings))
$len = 0;
foreach($array as $str)
$len += strlen($str);
use something like this:
$string = '';
foreach ($array as $val) {
$string .= $val;
}
echo strlen($string);
This will avoid multiple strlen calls and hence, should be a bit faster then calling strlen inside the foreach loop, atleast theoretically.
You can use implode() to transform your array of strings in a single string and then strlen the result.
echo strlen(implode('', $array))
If you want to get the collective length of all of the strings in an array, you can do this:
$len = strlen(implode('',$myArray));
*Note that this code will join the strings together with no spaces between them. You can change the first parameter to implode() if you want this to be different.
Related
I have a code which I have to explode my text using "*" as a delimiter.
I have a pattern that always the array [0] and [1] will be excluded and the rest of them need to be included inside a variable, but my problem is that I don't know how to catch dynamically the rest of the arrays that I have to put them all together inside of it.
Specially because my text may have more "*" and explode into more parts, but I have to get them all together. Excluding the [0] and [1]
$item= explode("*",$c7);
print_r($item);
//so now that I know which are my [0] and [1] arrays I need to get the rest of them inside of another variable
$variable = ?? //the rest of the $item arrays
$str = 'a*b*c*d*e';
$newStr = implode('*', array_slice(explode('*', $str), 2)); // OUTPUT: c*d*e
explode() is used to chunk the string by a delimiter
implode() is used to build a string again from chunks
array_slice() is used to select a range of the elements
I realise an answer was already accepted, but explode has a third argument for this, and with end you can grab that last, non-split part:
$str = 'a*b*c*d*e';
$res = end(explode("*", $str, 3));
$res gets this value as a result:
c*d*e
I think based off of your question, if I interpreted it correctly something like below will be useful.
USING A LOOP
$str = "adssa*asdASD*AS*DA*SD*ASD*AS*DAS*D";
$parts = explode("*", $str);
$newStr = "";
for ($i = 2; $i < count($parts); ++$i) {
$newStr .= $parts[$i];
}
Assuming I have a string
$str="0000,1023,1024,1025,1024,1023,1027,1025,1024,1025,0000";
there are three 1024, I want to replace the third with JJJJ, like this :
output :
0000,1023,1024,1025,1024,1023,1027,1025,JJJJ,1025,0000
how to make str_replace can do it
thanks for the help
As your question asks, you want to use str_replace to do this. It's probably not the best option, but here's what you do using that function. Assuming you have no other instances of "JJJJ" throughout the string, you could do this:
$str = "0000,1023,1024,1025,1024,1023,1027,1025,1024,1025,0000";
$str = str_replace('1024','JJJJ',$str,3)
$str = str_replace('JJJJ','1024',$str,2);
Here is what I would do and it should work regardless of values in $str:
function replace_str($str,$search,$replace,$num) {
$pieces = explode(',',$str);
$counter = 0;
foreach($pieces as $key=>$val) {
if($val == $search) {
$counter++;
if($counter == $num) {
$pieces[$key] = $replace;
}
}
}
return implode(',',$pieces);
}
$str="0000,1023,1024,1025,1024,1023,1027,1025,1024,1025,0000";
echo replace_str($str, '1024', 'JJJJ', 3);
I think this is what you are asking in your comment:
function replace_element($str,$search,$replace,$num) {
$num = $num - 1;
$pieces = explode(',',$str);
if($pieces[$num] == $search) {
$pieces[$num] = $replace;
}
return implode(',',$pieces);
}
$str="0000,1023,1024,1025,1024,1023,1027,1025,1024,1025,0000";
echo replace_element($str,'1024','JJJJ',9);
strpos has an offset, detailed here: http://php.net/manual/en/function.strrpos.php
So you want to do the following:
1) strpos with 1024, keep the offset
2) strpos with 1024 starting at offset+1, keep newoffset
3) strpos with 1024 starting at newoffset+1, keep thirdoffset
4) finally, we can use substr to do the replacement - get the string leading up to the third instance of 1024, concatenate it to what you want to replace it with, then get the substr of the rest of the string afterwards and concatenate it to that. http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php
You can either use strpos() three times to get the position of the third 1024 in your string and then replace it, or you could write a regex to use with preg_replace() that matches the third 1024.
if you want to find the last occurence of your string you can used strrpos
Do it like this:
$newstring = substr_replace($str,'JJJJ', strrpos($str, '1024'), strlen('1024') );
See working demo
Here's a solution with less calls to one and the same function and without having to explode, iterate over the array and implode again.
// replace the first three occurrences
$replaced = str_replace('1024', 'JJJJ', $str, 3);
// now replace the firs two, which you wanted to keep
$final = str_replace('JJJJ', '1024', $replaced, 2);
How can I prepend a string, say 'a' stored in the variable $x to each line of a multi-line string variable using PHP?
Can also use:
echo preg_replace('/^/m', $prefix, $string);
The / are delimiters. The ^ matches the beginning of a string. the m makes it multiline.
demo
There are many ways to achieve this.
One would be:
$multi_line_var = $x.str_replace("\n", "\n".$x, $multi_line_var);
Another would be:
$multi_line_var = explode("\n", $multi_line_var);
foreach($multi_line_var AS &$single_line_var) {
$single_line_var = $x.$single_line_var;
}
$multi_line_var = implode("\n", $multi_line_var);
Or as a deceitfully simple onliner:
$multi_line_var = $x.implode("\n".$x, explode("\n", $multi_line_var));
The second one is dreadfully wasteful compared to the first. It allocates memory for an array of strings. It runs over each array item and modifies it. And the glues the pieces back together.
But it can be useful if one concatenation is not the only alteration you're doing to those lines of text.
Because of your each line requirement, I would first split the string to an array using explode, then loop through the array and add text to the beginning of each line, and then turn the array back to a string using implode. As long as the number of lines is not very big, this can be a suitable solution.
Code sample:
$arr = explode("\n", $x);
foreach ($arr as $key => $value) {
$arr[$key] = 'a' . $arr[$key];
}
$x = implode("\n", $arr);
Example at: http://codepad.org/0WpJ41LE
How would I go about changing the following numbers around to a random positions in php?
Do I need to explode the numbers?
40,52,78,81,25,83,37,77
Thanks
$arr = explode(',', '40,52,78,81,25,83,37,77');
shuffle($arr);
echo implode(',', $arr);
http://ideone.com/sh2uH
So you want to shuffle the array order? Use PHP's shuffle function.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.shuffle.php
EDIT:
Didn't realise your numbers were in a string. The other answer sums it up.
Assuming the numbers are in a string:
$numbers = '40,52,78,81,25,83,37,77';
$numbers = explode(',',$numbers);
shuffle($numbers);
$numbers = implode(',',$numbers);
Try something like this.
$string = "40,52,78,81,25,83,37,77";
$numbers = explode(",", $string);
shuffle($numbers);
print_r($numbers);
explode breaks the string out into an array separating entries by ,
shuffle will operate on the array by reference and put them in random order
Array {
[0] => http://abc.com/video/ghgh23;
[1] => http://smtech.com/file/mwerq2;
}
I want to replace the content between /sometext/ from the above array. Like I want to replace video, file with abc.
You don't need to loop over every element of the array, str_replace can take an array to replace with:
$myArray = str_replace(array('/video/', '/file/'), '/abc/', $myArray);
However, based on your question, you might want to replace the first path segment, and not a specific index. So to do that:
$myArray = preg_replace('((?<!/)/([^/]+)/)', '/abc/', $myArray);
That will replace the first path element of every URL in $myArray with /abc/...
One way is to use str_replace()
You can check it out here: http://php.net/str_replace
Either str_replace as other comments suggested or using a regular expression especially if you might have a longer url with more segments like http://example.com/xxx/somestuff/morestuff
In that case str_replace will not be enough you will need preg_replace
This is another option. Supply a array, foreach will pick it up and then the first parameter of str_replace can be a array if needed. Hope you find this helpful.
<?php
$array = array('http://abc.com/video/ghgh23','http://smtech.com/file/mwerq2');
$newarray = array();
foreach($array as $url) {
$newarray[] = str_replace(array('video','file'),'abc',$url);
}
print_r($newarray);
?>
//every element in $myArray
for($i=0; $i < count($myArray); $i++){
$myArray[$i] = str_replace('/video/','/abc/',$myArray[$i]);
}
$array = array('http://abc.com/video/ghgh23', 'http://smtech.com/file/mwerq2');
foreach ($array as &$string)
{
$string = str_replace('video', 'abc', $string);
$string = str_replace('file', 'abc', $string);
}