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Posted by Rik on 01/27/07 20:32
bill <nobody@spamcop.net> wrote:
> I need to parse a set of directory entries (of photo image files) and =
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> pull out the names of the subjects, which is in the filename.
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> A file name could contain 1 or more subject names from a limited set o=
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> 18 possibilities.
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> eg: the possibilities might be: Aoife, Alana, Liam, Paddy.....
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> the file name might be: 0709-Aoife-Alana-DSC12435.jpg
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> I could do 18 stripos() calls to check for all 18 possibilities, but I=
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> thought I would run it by the more experienced to see if you can sugge=
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> an easier way
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> thanks in advance.
$possibities =3D array('foo','bar','baz'........);
$filenameparts =3D explode('-',$filename);
$matches =3D array_intersect($filenameparts,$possibities);
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Rik Wasmus
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