[thelist] converting whitespace to single space between printable characters
Matt Warden
mwarden at gmail.com
Wed Dec 7 22:40:28 CST 2005
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Alex Beston wrote:
> Hi evolt
>
> Im trying to reduce the whitespace between printable characters to a single space.
>
> What i want to do is get all of the the words in a text so as to make a
> histogram of word frequencies.
>
> Im doing this by exploding the string and using space as the delimiter.
> that only works in so far as words that are separated by spaces. so i
> find that i get words that have been yoked together since they were
> seperated with a return character.
While I hate the way PHP implements tokenizer, I think you will be
better off using it:
http://us2.php.net/strtok
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Matt Warden
Miami University
Oxford, OH, USA
http://mattwarden.com
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