Re: [PHP] catching plurals

2002-06-11 Thread Miguel Cruz
On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Zac Hillier wrote: > I'm trying to write a function to catch and remove plurals from a search > feature, can anyone suggest how I can efficiently remove 'ies' and 's' > from the right hand end of each word within an array? You are wasting your time (and preparing to really an

Re: [PHP] catching plurals

2002-06-11 Thread Dan Hardiker
> I'm trying to write a function to catch and remove plurals from a > search feature, can anyone suggest how I can efficiently remove 'ies' > and 's' from the right hand end of each word within an array? Your best bet is to use a phonetic search (for speed) looking up against a dictionary file...

[PHP] catching plurals

2002-06-11 Thread Zac Hillier
Hi I'm trying to write a function to catch and remove plurals from a search feature, can anyone suggest how I can efficiently remove 'ies' and 's' from the right hand end of each word within an array? Thanks, Zac -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http:/