expression help needed

[Matt MC]

Hi there. I want to be able to add an extra space in each instance
after a period in a string. I am already stripping out extra
whitespace throughout, so to start I have a nice flat string to work
with. I am struggling getting the syntax right and keep getting funny
results. What is the simplest way to accomplish this? Thanks a
billion.

Matt

[Brent Palmer]

Re: expression help needed


"Matt MC" <mattsimc@yahoo .com> wrote in message
news:1111437695 .400657.28000@l 41g2000cwc.goog legroups.com...[color=blue]
> Hi there. I want to be able to add an extra space in each instance
> after a period in a string. I am already stripping out extra
> whitespace throughout, so to start I have a nice flat string to work
> with. I am struggling getting the syntax right and keep getting funny
> results. What is the simplest way to accomplish this? Thanks a
> billion.
>
> Matt[/color]

Please give code example.

Brent Palmer.

[Peter Albertsson]

Re: expression help needed

If I understand you correctly, I think this is what you want:

<?php
$str = trim(str_replac e('.', '. ', $str));
?>

The trim removes any trailing spaces, if your string ends with a '.'.

Best Regards,

Peter

"Matt MC" <mattsimc@yahoo .com> wrote in message
news:1111437695 .400657.28000@l 41g2000cwc.goog legroups.com...[color=blue]
> Hi there. I want to be able to add an extra space in each instance
> after a period in a string. I am already stripping out extra
> whitespace throughout, so to start I have a nice flat string to work
> with. I am struggling getting the syntax right and keep getting funny
> results. What is the simplest way to accomplish this? Thanks a
> billion.
>
> Matt
>[/color]

[Matt MC]

Re: expression help needed

Greetings. Here are a couple examples of what I am looking for:

This is the input sentence. Testing this out. Thank you.

should output to...

This is the input sentence. Testing this out. Thank you.

After thinking about this further, I want to do this with all major end
punctuations, so that would be ! ? and . Did I miss anything?

Sincerely,

Matt

Peter Albertsson wrote:[color=blue]
> If I understand you correctly, I think this is what you want:
>
> <?php
> $str = trim(str_replac e('.', '. ', $str));
> ?>
>
> The trim removes any trailing spaces, if your string ends with a '.'.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Peter
>
> "Matt MC" <mattsimc@yahoo .com> wrote in message
> news:1111437695 .400657.28000@l 41g2000cwc.goog legroups.com...[color=green]
> > Hi there. I want to be able to add an extra space in each instance
> > after a period in a string. I am already stripping out extra
> > whitespace throughout, so to start I have a nice flat string to[/color][/color]
work[color=blue][color=green]
> > with. I am struggling getting the syntax right and keep getting[/color][/color]
funny[color=blue][color=green]
> > results. What is the simplest way to accomplish this? Thanks a
> > billion.
> >
> > Matt
> >[/color][/color]

[Geoff Berrow]

Re: expression help needed

I noticed that Message-ID:
<1111450852.859 826.135740@o13g 2000cwo.googleg roups.com> from Matt MC
contained the following:
[color=blue]
>This is the input sentence. Testing this out. Thank you.
>
>should output to...
>
>This is the input sentence. Testing this out. Thank you.
>
>After thinking about this further, I want to do this with all major end
>punctuations , so that would be ! ? and . Did I miss anything?[/color]

Is this for output to a browser?

Because browsers will ignore multiple spaces unless you make them non
breaking. Also you only want to do the replacement if the character is
already followed by a space. In this case, using trim will prevent the
replacement of the final full stop (period).

<?php

$punctuation=ar ray(". ","! ","? ");
$punctuation_wi th_spaces=array (".&nbsp; ","!&nbsp; ","?&nbsp; ");
$test_string="\ "Can you do it?\" he asked. I thought about it for a
moment. This would not be as simple as it first seemed. Difficult even!
Were all options covered? Hard to say. ";
$str = str_replace($pu nctuation, $punctuation_wi th_spaces,
$test_string);

print "<p>$test_strin g</p>";
print "<p>$str</p>";
?>
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[Joe Webster]

Re: expression help needed

Matt MC wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi there. I want to be able to add an extra space in each instance
> after a period in a string. I am already stripping out extra
> whitespace throughout, so to start I have a nice flat string to work
> with. I am struggling getting the syntax right and keep getting funny
> results. What is the simplest way to accomplish this? Thanks a
> billion.
>
> Matt
>[/color]

This will make sure there are exactly 2 spaces after each of those marks:

$string = preg_replace("/([\.!?])(\s*)/", "\\1 ", $string);

-Joe

[ZeldorBlat]

Re: expression help needed

str_replace can take an array as the search terms. If any of the
search terms are found, they will be replaced. So:

$inputStr = "This is the input sentence. Testing this out. Thank you.";
$matches = array(". ", "? ", "! "); //one space after each one
$replacements = array(". ", "? ", "! "); //two spaces after each one
$outStr = str_replace($ma tches, $replacements, $inputStr);

[Matt MC]

Re: expression help needed

Joe, I found if someone types multiple marks, like: testing!!! it will
output: testing! ! !

Can this be compensated for those scenarios?

Sincerely,

Matt

Joe Webster wrote:[color=blue]
> Matt MC wrote:[color=green]
> > Hi there. I want to be able to add an extra space in each instance
> > after a period in a string. I am already stripping out extra
> > whitespace throughout, so to start I have a nice flat string to[/color][/color]
work[color=blue][color=green]
> > with. I am struggling getting the syntax right and keep getting[/color][/color]
funny[color=blue][color=green]
> > results. What is the simplest way to accomplish this? Thanks a
> > billion.
> >
> > Matt
> >[/color]
>
> This will make sure there are exactly 2 spaces after each of those[/color]
marks:[color=blue]
>
> $string = preg_replace("/([\.!?])(\s*)/", "\\1 ", $string);
>
> -Joe[/color]

[Joe Webster]

Re: expression help needed

Matt MC wrote:[color=blue]
> Joe, I found if someone types multiple marks, like: testing!!! it will
> output: testing! ! !
>
> Can this be compensated for those scenarios?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Matt
>
> Joe Webster wrote:
>[/color]
Oh sure, just add a + after the [\.!?], so it should now read.

$string = preg_replace("/([\.!?]+)(\s*)/", "\\1 ", $string);

-Joe

[Matt MC]

Re: expression help needed


Joe Webster wrote:[color=blue]
> Matt MC wrote:[color=green]
> > Joe, I found if someone types multiple marks, like: testing!!! it[/color][/color]
will[color=blue][color=green]
> > output: testing! ! !
> >
> > Can this be compensated for those scenarios?
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Matt
> >
> > Joe Webster wrote:
> >[/color]
> Oh sure, just add a + after the [\.!?], so it should now read.
>
> $string = preg_replace("/([\.!?]+)(\s*)/", "\\1 ", $string);
>
> -Joe[/color]

Ahh, that works beautifully. Bravo!

---Matt