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Yusuf Chauhan
Yusuf Chauhan

Reputation: 11

How to Convert Paragraph(string) to line (array) in PHP?

I have paragraph like this.

Rose Helen (b. 13 May 1937), married The Lord Luce.Laura Violet (b. 18 January 1939), married Sir John Montgomery-Cuninghame of Corsehill, 12th Baronet. Emma Harriet (b. 16 October 1941), married Sir Michael Harris Caine.Harriet Mary (b. 29 June 1946), married Charles Hugh Flower (a maternal great-great-grandson of the 1st Duke of Abercorn). As Nicholson had no sons from his marriage, his title became extinct upon his death in 1991.

I want to convert paragraph(string) into line(array) like this

1.Rose Helen (b. 13 May 1937), married The Lord Luce.
2.Laura Violet (b. 18 January 1939), married Sir John Montgomery-Cuninghame of Corsehill, 12th Baronet.
3.Emma Harriet (b. 16 October 1941), married Sir Michael Harris Caine.
4.Harriet Mary (b. 29 June 1946), married Charles Hugh Flower (a maternal great-great-grandson of the 1st Duke of Abercorn).
5.As Nicholson had no sons from his marriage, his title became extinct upon his death in 1991.

So i create code like this

 <?PHP

$para="Rose Helen (b. 13 May 1937), married The Lord Luce.Laura Violet (b. 18 January 1939), married Sir John Montgomery-Cuninghame of Corsehill, 12th Baronet.Emma Harriet (b. 16 October 1941), married Sir Michael Harris Caine.Harriet Mary (b. 29 June 1946), married Charles Hugh Flower (a maternal great-great-grandson of the 1st Duke of Abercorn).As Nicholson had no sons from his marriage, his title became extinct upon his death in 1991.";


$line = explode(". ",$para);

  for ($i = 0; $i < count($line); ++$i) {

  echo "<P>$i.$line[$i]</P>";

  }
?>

it works without error but it give the output like this 

0.Rose Helen (b

1.13 May 1937), married The Lord Luce.Laura Violet (b

2.18 January 1939), married Sir John Montgomery-Cuninghame of Corsehill, 12th Baronet.Emma Harriet (b

3.16 October 1941), married Sir Michael Harris Caine.Harriet Mary (b

4.29 June 1946), married Charles Hugh Flower (a maternal great-great-grandson of the 1st Duke of Abercorn).As Nicholson had no sons from his marriage, his title became extinct upon his death in 1991.

I want the output as each sentence as new line.here because the b. 13 may 1937 the php take it as new line so plz give any idea or suggestion that i can convert the paragraph into line ignoring b. 13 May 1937 type of hurdle. plz help me.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 121

Answers (2)

NaijaProgrammer
NaijaProgrammer

Reputation: 2957

Here's a working solution, using regular expression:

$para="Rose Helen (b. 13 May 1937), married The Lord Luce.Laura Violet (b. 18 January 1939), married Sir John Montgomery-Cuninghame of Corsehill, 12th Baronet.Emma Harriet (b. 16 October 1941), married Sir Michael Harris Caine.Harriet Mary (b. 29 June 1946), married Charles Hugh Flower (a maternal great-great-grandson of the 1st Duke of Abercorn).As Nicholson had no sons from his marriage, his title became extinct upon his death in 1991.";
$split_arr = preg_split("/\.[a-zA-Z]+ /", $para);
var_dump($split_arr);

Basically, the regular expression says to split the string at:

  1. A literal "." (dot), then:
  2. One or more alphabets, (This elemintates the possibility of having strings like beginning with something like "(b. 13 May..." in the array. Then:
  3. A space character

So, based on your code, you should have:

$line =  preg_split("/\.[a-zA-Z]+ /", $para);
for ($i = 0; $i < count($line); ++$i) {
   echo "<P>$i.$line[$i]</P>";
}

Upvotes: 0

Narendrasingh Sisodia
Narendrasingh Sisodia

Reputation: 21422

You can simply use preg_split function like as

$result = preg_split('/\.+(?![^\(]*\))/',$str);
print_r(array_filter($result));

Explanation(Regex) :

\.+(?![^\(]*\))
  • \.+ matches the character . literally
  • (?![^\(]*\)) Negative Lookahead - Not to match those characters that comes within () parentheses

Demo

Upvotes: 1

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