[young_coder]

Dear all,
I want to remove all lines less than 3 words longs so I can stuff the rest into a db.
Can somebody help me?
Thank you in advance

[Keith]

What are you working with that you need the lines removed from? A text file? An array?

[bigdaddy75]

That is pretty vague. Can you give more details as to what you are trying to do and the code you are working with?

[Frement]

PHP Code:

<?php



show_source(__FILE__);



$string = "Line 1\nLine 2\nLine 3";



$lines = explode("\n", $string);



$i = 0;

$result;



foreach ($lines as $line) {

    if (strlen($line) > 2) {

        $result[$i] = $line;

        $i++;

    }

}



echo $result;



?>

This will split the given string by \n and loop through the array, resulting in array which contains only lines longer then 2 lines.

You can skip the splitting and insert your own array to the foreach loop if you already have one.

Hope this helps.

[Frement]

I read the first post wrong, heres a version that has word detection, by splitting the line with " " (space).

PHP Code:

<?php



show_source(__FILE__);



$string = "Line 1 has over 3 words.\nLine 2\nLine 3 has more then 3 words.";



$lines = explode("\n", $string);



$i = 0;

$result;



foreach ($lines as $line) {

    $words = explode(" ", $line);

    if (count($words) > 2) {

        $result[$i] = $line;

        $i++;

    }

}



print_r($result);



?>

Heres a preview: http://www.frement.net/young_coder.php