Here is an example of what i would like to do:

I have some text

laosmsne Colchester 2 1 Manchester United askssa
laosmsne Cardiff 0 1 Plymouth Argyle askssa

is there a way to delete everything except numbers and Colchester(and rest of the footballs teams). Can i strip tags aswell like <a> etc?

I would like the final result to be:


Colchester 2 1 Manchester United
Cardiff 0 1 Plymouth Argyle

i would think so...

first of shove all that into a variable

PHP Code:

$text = 'laosmsne Colchester 2 1 Manchester United askssa
laosmsne Cardiff 0 1 Plymouth Argyle askssa';
 
$text = striptags($text); // removes HTML
 
$text = str_replace("laosmsne", "", $text); //should replace all laosmsne with nothing
 
$text = str_replace("askssa", "", $text);
 
echo $text; 


This should do it, you can do into a bit more complicated way, if you want to use this on a larger scale with more word u want removed.

like you could have a array which has all football teams in, and tell it to remove everything except the football teams and numeric data.

Talkupation Apprieciated

Dan

could you help me make the array one cuz thats what i really want. but ive dun dun any arrays.

talkupation on its way!

Lol i knew you would want the more compluicated one

im actually gonna have to thing about this!

edit: im writing this, and i have gone blank

i can think how to remove the defined stuff in the array but i cant think how to remove everythign except the array :s

ill post the script in a bit when i figured out the bets way to do it

I came up with this rather quick. So sorry if it's not that good.

<?php
$arr1 = array('laosmsne', 'Colchester', '2', '1', 'Manchester United', 'askssa');
$arr2 = array('laosmsne', 'Cardiff', '0', '1', 'Plymouth Argyle', 'askssa');

$arr_split1 = array_slice($arr1, 1,4);
$arr_split2 = array_slice($arr2, 1,4);

for ($i = 0, $num = count($arr_split1); $i < $num; $i++) {
  print " $arr_split1[$i]\n";
}

print("<p>");

for ($i = 0, $num = count($arr_split2); $i < $num; $i++) {
  print " $arr_split2[$i]\n";
}
?>

What I would do is compile an array/list of Football teams and then use a regex to filter out the scores. this means that the junk text at either side can be filtered regardless of what it is.

Jamie

I been trying to get this, (and been asking about it)

i think what you were saying is basically what i was doing... or trying to do.

im thinking along maybe this kind of logic:

PHP Code:

<?php
// Load text into a variable this can be done in a few ways easies being this.
$text = 'laosmsne Colchester 2 1 Manchester United askssa
laosmsne Cardiff 0 1 Plymouth Argyle askssa';
// Set teams
$teams = array(
   "Colchester", 
   "Manchester United", 
   "Cardiff", 
   "Plymouth", 
   "Swindon!", 
   "Portsmouth"
   );

$text = str_replace(!$teams || is_number, "", $text);
echo $text;
?>

but obviously that dont actually work...

just need a way to remove everything which isnt in the $team array or a number

ye thats what i wanna do is find a away from an array to say if its not equal to anything in the array delete it!

unfortunaly tho str_replace dont do things like !$team (Not teaam as in it dont equal that)

Where are you getting this text from to begin with it might be easier o script that way.

well i imploded it to a $var but it also contains html code etc.

PHP Code:

implode('',file('http://www.sportinglife.com/football/popup/football365/latest_scores.auto?/opt/ASFapache/htdocs/site/football/live/latestscores/cc_champ.insdat')) 


how would i make a regex?

might be easier to get it from the HTML, im too tired and have coursework to writte something to do it.

the text is not static its dynamic! Its football scores it updates when someone scores.

yes, but like the infomation is surrounded in the same tags so like you could write a script to get the infor between blah X blah X

here might be an idea! how do u use arrays? and would this work! convert whole document to lowercase then str_replace all footballs teams etc and delete everything which isnt capital using the regex?