Hi,
Saturday, April 24, 2004, 12:42:57 AM, you wrote:
TR> Hi,
TR> Friday, April 23, 2004, 11:50:56 PM, you wrote:
TR> You could try something like this
TR> $string = "hello world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! how arrrrrrrrrrrrrrre you today?????!!";
TR> if(preg_match_all('/(\w)\1{4,}|(\W)\2{4,}/',$string,$match)){
TR> echo "too many repeated characters<br>";
TR> print_r($match);
TR> }
TR> That will catch everything, except numbers, that is repeated 4 or more
TR> times.
With preg_split() you can do a bit of correction too:
$string = "hello world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! how arrrrrrrrrrrrrrre you today?????!!";
if(preg_match_all('/(\w)\1{4,}|(\W)\2{4,}/',$string,$match)){
echo "too many repeated characters<br>";
print_r($match);
}
$split = preg_split('/(\w)\1{4,}|(\W)\2{4,}/',$string);
print_r($split);
$out = '';
foreach($split as $key=>$val){
$out .= $val;
if(!empty($match[1][$key])) $out .= $match[1][$key];
elseif(!empty($match[2][$key])) $out .= $match[2][$key];
}
echo $out.'<br>';
The tricks you learn with this PHP :-)
--
regards,
Tom
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