Stupid PHP Question RESOLVED:CLOSED Thanks

[Ted Kopelli]

Example: I am trying to find all words in a text file ending in "ing"

For the life of me, I cannot figure out the pattern for preg_match_all

Please help!!

Thanks in advance,

Ted

[Levada]

found this:

int preg_match_all ( string $pattern , string $subject , array &$matches [, int $flags [, int $offset ]] )
Searches subject for all matches to the regular expression given in pattern and puts them in matches in the order specified by flags .

After the first match is found, the subsequent searches are continued on from end of the last match.

hope it helps!

Levada Pendry

[aGor]

I don't know for sure, but try with
preg_match("/ing /",$string);

[Bruce Hearder]

The search you are doing sounds a lot like the work thats been done of stemming :

Example, thenstem of the word connections is connect, etc

Do a quick Google search for Porter Stemming and I'm sure you will find a couple of 1/2 decent PHP classes that will do pretty much what you want..

Also, check out phpclasses.org always a good place to go for code snippets..

Take care

Bruce

[ltdraper]

This code:

$text = <<<END
The raining in Spain is always remaining on the plain.
END;

preg_match_all( '/\b([a-zA-Z].*?)ing\b/', $text, $m);

produces array m where:

array(2) {
0 => array(2) {
0 => string(7) raining
1 => string(9) remaining
}
1 => array(2) {
0 => string(4) rain
1 => string(6) remain
}
}

Which is what I think you asked for.

And you might have gotten a better response over in the programming topic.

[Ted Kopelli]

Thanks to all I think I have it now.

Ted