I already have a function that counts the number of items in a string ($paragraph) and tells me how many characters the result is, ie tsp and tbsp present is 7, I can use this to work out the percentage of that string is.
I need to reinforce this with preg_match because 10tsp should count as 5.
$characters = strlen($paragraph);
$items = array("tsp", "tbsp", "tbs");
$count = 0;
foreach($items as $item) {
//Count the number of times the formatting is in the paragraph
$countitems = substr_count($paragraph, $开发者_高级运维item);
$countlength= (strlen($item)*$countitems);
$count = $count+$countlength;
}
$overallpercent = ((100/$characters)*$count);
I know it would be something like preg_match('#[d]+[item]#', $paragraph)
right?
EDIT sorry for the curve ball but there might be a space inbetween the number and the $item, can one preg_match catch both instances?
It's not quite clear to me what you are trying to do with the regex, but if you are just trying to match for a particular number-measurement combination, this might help:
$count = preg_match_all('/\d+\s*(tbsp|tsp|tbs)/', $paragraph);
This will return the number of times a number-measurement combination occurs in $paragraph
.
EDIT switched to use preg_match_all
to count all occurrences.
Example for counting the number of matched characters:
$paragraph = "5tbsp and 10 tsp";
$charcnt = 0;
$matches = array();
if (preg_match_all('/\d+\s*(tbsp|tsp|tbs)/', $paragraph, $matches) > 0) {
foreach ($matches[0] as $match) { $charcnt += strlen($match); }
}
printf("total number of characters: %d\n", $charcnt);
Output from executing the above:
total number of characters: 11
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