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StreetCoder
StreetCoder

Reputation: 10061

Get first 3 words from non English string in php

I want first 3 words from a non-english string in php. For example:

এখানে কিংকর্তব্যবিমূঢ় হবার কোনো সুযোগ নেই

I have found it is possible for English text as:

$phrase = 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit';
echo implode(' ', array_slice(str_word_count($phrase, 2), 0, 3));

But it does not work for my non-english(bengali) text. Could someone tell me how can I do it?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 79

Answers (4)

JYoThI
JYoThI

Reputation: 12085

use explode and implode

1) explode the string by space

2) get the first three slice using array_slice

3) again implode it with space 

<?php

  $string = 'এখানে কিংকর্তব্যবিমূঢ় হবার কোনো সুযোগ নেই';
  $array = array_slice(explode(" ",$string),0,3);

  echo implode(" ",$array)."<br>";

  ?>

Upvotes: 1

Jan
Jan

Reputation: 43199

Here as well, you could use the power of regular expressions:

^(?:\b\p{Bengali}+\s*){3}

See a demo on regex101.com.

Which in PHP would be:

<?php
$string = "এখানে কিংকর্তব্যবিমূঢ় হবার কোনো সুযোগ নেই";
$regex = '~^(?:\b\p{Bengali}+\s*){3}~u';
if (preg_match($regex, $string, $match)) {
    echo $match[0];
}

# এখানে কিংকর্তব্যবিমূঢ় হবার 
?>

See a demo on ideone.com.

Upvotes: 0

Marcin Orlowski
Marcin Orlowski

Reputation: 75635

You do not mention what version of PHP you are using but the main pain with PHP and UTF is that it does not sometimes work together as many string manipulation methods are/were mostly based on assumption "1 char = 1 byte". MBString extension addresses this in many cases yet not everywhere. In your case str_word_count() needs to be replaced with multibyte aware counterpart, i.e. mb_split():

echo implode(' ', array_slice(mb_split("\s", $phrase), 0, 3));

Upvotes: 1

Pedro Lobito
Pedro Lobito

Reputation: 99041

You can use explode, array_slice and implode for this:

$string = "এখানে কিংকর্তব্যবিমূঢ় হবার কোনো সুযোগ নেই";
$parts = explode(" ", $string);
$x = array_slice($parts, 0, 3);
print implode(" ", $x);
# এখানে কিংকর্তব্যবিমূঢ় হবার

Upvotes: 1

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