php - Matching regular and dash separated word with regex -
i want match words seperated dash -
, regular word. i'm using regular expression \b(word|someother|xyz|....|word50)\b // upto 50 words
trouble want match words
w-ord w-o-r-d some-oth-e-r x-y-z
so instead of putting (-)?
after every character manually this
\b(w(-)?o(-)?r(-)?d|w(-)?o(-)?r(-)?d|someother|....|word50)\b
is there shorter way regex can match -
also. list long want shorter way
you can match this:
$regex = '#\b(word|someother|xyz|....|word50)\b#'; $ret = preg_match($regex, preg_replace('#(?<=\w)-(?=\w)#', '', $str), $m);
i.e. if dash comes between 2 word characters remove dash (hyphens) strings first , match.
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