Occurrence of a word in a sentence using php
Posted by chaabant on Jan 9, 2008
Can someone please post a code that will return a number of how many instances of a string are in a string? For example:
“my name is tim tim is a dumb name i hate people named tim”
I want a code to return “3″ (for the 3 instances of tim) for that. Please help!
here is the code :
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<?php
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$i=0; // number of occurrence
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$msg = "my name is tim tim is a dumb name i hate people named tim"; // The Sentence
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$word = "tim"; // Word to Search
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foreach ($txt as $key=>$val) {
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if($val == $word) {
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$i++ ;
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} // end if
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} // end for
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echo "The Occurrence of $word in the Sentence is : <b> $i </b> ";
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?>
Result :
The Occurrence of tim in the Sentence is : 3
Take note that in php there is a difference when using a capital letter , Tim is Different than tim ; A Solution for this would be to use the string strtolower ( string $str ) function .
in our case :
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$msg = "my name is tim tim is a dumb name i hate people named tim"; // The Sentence
Hope this answer your question 