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
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"Matt MC" <ma******@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:11*********************@l41g2000cwc.googlegro ups.com... 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
Please give code example.
Brent Palmer.
If I understand you correctly, I think this is what you want:
<?php
$str = trim(str_replace('.', '. ', $str));
?>
The trim removes any trailing spaces, if your string ends with a '.'.
Best Regards,
Peter
"Matt MC" <ma******@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:11*********************@l41g2000cwc.googlegro ups.com... 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
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: If I understand you correctly, I think this is what you want:
<?php
$str = trim(str_replace('.', '. ', $str));
?>
The trim removes any trailing spaces, if your string ends with a '.'.
Best Regards,
Peter
"Matt MC" <ma******@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:11*********************@l41g2000cwc.googlegro ups.com... 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
I noticed that Message-ID:
<11**********************@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups .com> from Matt MC
contained the following: 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?
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=array(". ","! ","? ");
$punctuation_with_spaces=array(". ","! ","? ");
$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. ";
$str = str_replace($punctuation, $punctuation_with_spaces,
$test_string);
print "<p>$test_string</p>";
print "<p>$str</p>";
?>
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Matt MC wrote: 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
This will make sure there are exactly 2 spaces after each of those marks:
$string = preg_replace("/([\.!?])(\s*)/", "\\1 ", $string);
-Joe
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
$outStr = str_replace($matches, $replacements, $inputStr);
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: Matt MC wrote: 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
This will make sure there are exactly 2 spaces after each of those
marks:
$string = preg_replace("/([\.!?])(\s*)/", "\\1 ", $string);
-Joe
Matt MC wrote: 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:
Oh sure, just add a + after the [\.!?], so it should now read.
$string = preg_replace("/([\.!?]+)(\s*)/", "\\1 ", $string);
-Joe
Joe Webster wrote: Matt MC wrote: 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:
Oh sure, just add a + after the [\.!?], so it should now read.
$string = preg_replace("/([\.!?]+)(\s*)/", "\\1 ", $string);
-Joe
Ahh, that works beautifully. Bravo!
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