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 Posted by Rik on 01/27/07 20:51 
bill <nobody@spamcop.net> wrote: 
 
> Rik wrote: 
>> bill <nobody@spamcop.net> wrote: 
>> 
>>> I need to parse a set of directory entries (of photo image files) an= 
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>>> pull out the names of the subjects, which is in the filename. 
>>> 
>>> A file name could contain 1 or more subject names from a limited set= 
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>>> of 18 possibilities. 
>>> 
>>> eg: the possibilities might be: Aoife, Alana, Liam, Paddy..... 
>>> 
>>> the file name might be: 0709-Aoife-Alana-DSC12435.jpg 
>>> 
>>> I could do 18 stripos() calls to check for all 18 possibilities, but= 
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>>> thought I would run it by the more experienced to see if you can  = 
 
>>> suggest an easier way 
>>> 
>>> thanks in advance. 
>>  $possibities =3D array('foo','bar','baz'........); 
>> $filenameparts =3D explode('-',$filename); 
>> $matches =3D array_intersect($filenameparts,$possibities); 
 
Addendum, if you want a case-insensitive comparison (PHP >=3D 5): 
$matches =3D array_uintersect($filenameparts,$possibities,'strcasecmp');= 
 
 
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Rik Wasmus
 
  
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