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Posted by Jordan Miller on 10/19/71 11:29
Hello,
what have you been trying for comparison so far that has not been
working?
if you have php 5, you would want to use stripos, which is case-
INsensitive, not strpos, which is the opposite.
Also, note the warning on the man page. you would want to use a
triple equals sign "!===false" because stripos could return a zero or
an empty string which is actually "==false".
http://www.php.net/stripos/
if you do not have php 5, i would use regex so you can get case
insensitivity.
Jordan
On Oct 16, 2005, at 11:18 PM, Minuk Choi wrote:
> Assuming that you are also accepting partial matches... (e.g. if
> you had a sentence with something like, "Mr. LeBlue says hello", and
> that should be a match for "blue")
>
> If $mysqlString contains 1 sentence from the mySQL database(I
> assume you've a loop or something that'll fetch 1 string per
> iteration)
>
> $resultStr = $mysqlString;
>
> $bFound=false;
> foreach ($myArray as $colorArray)
> {
> $firstTerm = $colorArray[0];
> $secondTerm = $colorArray[1];
>
> if (strpos($resultStr, $firstTerm)!==false)
> {
> $resultStr = $secondTerm;
> $bFound=true;
> }
> if ($bFound)
> break;
> }
>
> $mysqlString = $resultStr;
>
>
> Try that.
>
>
>
>
> Brian Dunning wrote:
>
>
>> I want to create an array like this:
>>
>> $myArray=array(
>> array('orange','A very bright color'),
>> array('blue','A nice color like the ocean'),
>> array('yellow','Very bright like the sun') ...etc...
>> )
>>
>> Sort of like a small database in memory. Then I want to compare
>> each of the rows coming out of a MySQL call, which are sentences,
>> against this array to see if the FIRST TERM in each array element
>> is present in the sentence, and then display the SECOND TERM from
>> the array for each sentence. Make sense? So for these two
>> sentences, and the above array, here's how I want it to output:
>>
>> "He used blue paint" - A nice color like the ocean.
>> "The flower was yellow" - Very bright like the sun.
>>
>> Can someone help me out with the code needed to search the
>> sentence to which FIRST TERM appears in it, and retrieve the
>> SECOND TERM? I've tried too many things and now my brain is tied
>> in a knot.
>>
>>
>
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