Re: [PHP] Correcting contractions

2005-06-25 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 6/25/05, Bob Winter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dotan, > > Your task intrigued me, so I put together a function that will help process > your data: > ><<< snippped and trimmed as per Buehan Khalid suggeted >>> > ?> > > --Bob > Thank you Bob! This is the route that I had tried going do

Re: [PHP] Correcting contractions

2005-06-24 Thread Robert Cummings
On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 02:17, Burhan Khalid wrote: > Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > Ill I knew about, its I didn't. I didn't mean to put ill in there... > > > > Should I enter each contraction twice (for the capitalization), or > > should I try to do something smart so that the capitalization will > > h

Re: [PHP] Correcting contractions

2005-06-24 Thread Burhan Khalid
Dotan Cohen wrote: Ill I knew about, its I didn't. I didn't mean to put ill in there... Should I enter each contraction twice (for the capitalization), or should I try to do something smart so that the capitalization will happen automatically. The 'I' contractions are special, I will deal with

Re: [PHP] Correcting contractions

2005-06-24 Thread Bob Winter
Dotan Cohen wrote: On 6/25/05, Robert Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 21:02, Dotan Cohen wrote: Hi friends, I've got a nice array of contractions (I've, I'd, they'll,...). My intent is to take submitted data and replace, say, every occurance of 'theyd' with 'they'd

Re: [PHP] Correcting contractions

2005-06-24 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 6/25/05, Robert Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 21:02, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > Hi friends, I've got a nice array of contractions (I've, I'd, > > they'll,...). My intent is to take submitted data and replace, say, > > every occurance of 'theyd' with 'they'd'. So far, so

Re: [PHP] Correcting contractions

2005-06-24 Thread Robert Cummings
On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 21:02, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Hi friends, I've got a nice array of contractions (I've, I'd, > they'll,...). My intent is to take submitted data and replace, say, > every occurance of 'theyd' with 'they'd'. So far, so good. The trick > is doing it if the first character is upperc

[PHP] Correcting contractions

2005-06-24 Thread Dotan Cohen
Hi friends, I've got a nice array of contractions (I've, I'd, they'll,...). My intent is to take submitted data and replace, say, every occurance of 'theyd' with 'they'd'. So far, so good. The trick is doing it if the first character is uppercase. I tried going throught the array, one by one, and d