Flat Explode

[falsepride]

heres a good php trick. you cant explode an array with a null divider which can get annoying but using chunk_split can get arround that...

function flatExplode($safeCharacter, $String) {
$exploded = explode($safeCharacter, chunk_split($String, 1, $safeCharacter));
unset($exploded[strlen($String)]);
return($exploded);
}

just make $sting what you want to be exploded, and a character that you know isnt in the $string, like /xff for example. if you may wonder what youd need to do this for, you can make a sentence capitaler using this. using a for each on the $exploded, and runing some if statements.

[sde]

interesting post. thanks. you should include the logic to make the sentence capitalizer and create a new article

here's another cool way...

PHP Code:

<?
function FixTextCase($text) {
    $text = strtolower($text);
    $sentences = preg_split("/(\.(\s)?|\?(\s)?)/",$text,-1,PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE);
   
    foreach($sentences as $x) {
        if ((trim($x) == ".") || (trim($x) == "?")) {
            $outtext .= trim($x)." ";
        } else {
            $outtext .= ucfirst(trim($x));
        }
    }
   
    // fix double mark errors
    $outtext = preg_replace("/(\s\.)/",".",$outtext);
    $outtext = preg_replace("/(\s\?)/","?",$outtext);
    return $outtext;
}

$string = "this is a test. IS THIS A TEST? YES it is a test.";

echo FixTextCase($string);
?>

[falsepride]

never knew about the ucfirst command existed, but my way of doing it would have been

PHP Code:

foreach ($exploded as $e) {
if($three == "yes") {
$e = strtoupper($e);
$one = "";
$two = "";
$three = "";
}
if (($two == "yes") && ($e == " ")) {
$three = "yes";
}
if (($one == "yes") && ($e == " ")) {
$two = "yes";
}
if($e == "." || $e == "?" || $e == "!") {
$one = "yes"
}
}