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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