I've searched til I am blue in the face and have yet to find a solution to this. I want to check a string to see if one of the 2 letter state abbreviations are in it. I can find it and uppercase it, but it also uppercase the abbreviation if it is part of a word (which I do not want it to do).
My code below outputs "WAnt To Work In Eastern WA?"
when I want it to output "Want To Work In Eastern WA?".
Here is what I am working with, hopefully someone can tell me what I am doing wrong. Thank you!
$newheading = "Want To Work In Eastern Wa?"; // This variable is not always the same.
$states = "Al Ak Az Ar Ca Co Ct De Fl Ga Hi Id Il In Ia Ks Ky La Me Md Ma Mi Mn Ms Mo Mt Ne Nv Nh Nj Nm Ny Nc Nd Oh Ok Or Pa Ri Sc Sd Tn Tx Ut Vt Va Wa Wv Wi Wy";
$pieces = explode(" ", trim($newheading));
foreach($pieces as $v) {
if ((strlen($v) == 2) && ($v != "In") && ($v != "Or")) {
$newv = strtoupper($v);
$out = str_replace($v, $newv, $pieces);
$out = implode(" ", $pieces);
$newheading = $out;
break;
}
}
You can use a regex joining the states on OR and look for word-boundaries
|\b
or a space\s
:
$states = explode(' ', $states); // or just define as an array
$states = implode('', $states);
$newheading = preg_replace_callback("/|\b($states)|\b/", function($m) {
return strtoupper($m[0]);
}, $newheading);
I'm not sure what you're doing with"In"
and"Or"
, but just remove them from$states
.
If the string could containwa
orwA
for example, then you want to add thei
modifier to the end for case insensitive.
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