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@NogDogNov 13.2021 — #It's going to depend on how many different ways you want to match. If you have first name "John" and last name "Smith" for one student, which of these would you match on?
But if you can assume (or at least settle) for it always being
preg_match from entire document
I’ve got a textarea form post which I’m processing.
In this post will be an article which will likely have multiple names in it. First Name – Last Name, Last Name First Name mixture.
I want to do a preg_match (I believe) on all my students to find all matches.
My students is and object list with firstname and lastname seperated in two properties.
Would I need to do two preg_matches for all students in my list against the entire document?
Any better ways of doing this?
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@NogDogNov 13.2021 — #It's going to depend on how many different ways you want to match. If you have first name "John" and last name "Smith" for one student, which of these would you match on?John Smithjohn smithJ. SMITHSmith, JohnJohn W. Smithetc...
But if you can assume (or at least settle) for it always being
"first_name last_name"strpos()stripos()[code=php]
$name = "$first_name $last_name";
if(strpos($text, $name) !== false) {
// found it
}
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