Splitting string

[mohamad]

Hello guys, i want to split $sText and get the same results as displayed except  "hardalot"(hard alot),i want them to be seperate but in the same time i want sug-gestion to be combined.

#include <array.au3>
Local $sText="Test text- - ,do-what-ever-you-want ,eat-apple ,write sug-" & @CRLF & "gestion and work hard" & @CRLF & "alot"
MsgBox(0,"",$sText)
Local $aArray = StringSplit($sText, ' ')
    _ArrayDisplay($aArray)

Edited October 17, 2014 by mohamad

[Melba23]

Mohamed,

How about this:

#include <Array.au3>

Local $sText = "Test text- - ,do-what-ever-you-want ,eat-apple ,write sug-" & @CRLF & "gestion and work hard" & @CRLF & "alot"

$sText = StringReplace(StringReplace($sText, "-" & @CRLF, ""), @CRLF, " ")

Local $aArray = StringSplit($sText, " ")

_ArrayDisplay($aArray)

M23

[mohamad]

works great

[czardas]

Oh, I wrote something a little more complicated.   It checks that the hyphen dash is part of a split word, or not, before joining. It also ignores multiple spaces and line breaks.

;

Local $sText="Test text- - ,do-what-ever-you-want ,eat-apple ,write sug-" & @CRLF & "gestion and work hard" & @CRLF & "alot"
Local $aArray = StringRegExp(StringRegExpReplace($sText, "(?i)(?<=[a-z])\-\r\n(?=[a-z])", ""), "\S+", 3)
_ArrayDisplay($aArray)

:;

Or with the item count added.

Local $sText="Test text- - ,do-what-ever-you-want ,eat-apple ,write sug-" & @CRLF & "gestion and work hard" & @CRLF & "alot"
Local $aArray = StringRegExp(StringRegExpReplace("? " & $sText, "(?i)(?<=[a-z])\-\r\n(?=[a-z])", ""), "\S+", 3)
$aArray[0] = UBound($aArray) -1
_ArrayDisplay($aArray)

;

It's the same approach as Melba23, but a little more fussy.

Edited October 17, 2014 by czardas

[mohamad]

Oh, I wrote something a little more complicated.   It checks that the hyphen dash is part of a split word, or not, before joining. It also ignores multiple spaces and line breaks.

;

Local $sText="Test text- - ,do-what-ever-you-want ,eat-apple ,write sug-" & @CRLF & "gestion and work hard" & @CRLF & "alot"
Local $aArray = StringRegExp(StringRegExpReplace($sText, "(?i)(?<=[a-z])\-\r\n(?=[a-z])", ""), "\S+", 3)
_ArrayDisplay($aArray)

:;

Or with the item count added.

Local $sText="Test text- - ,do-what-ever-you-want ,eat-apple ,write sug-" & @CRLF & "gestion and work hard" & @CRLF & "alot"
Local $aArray = StringRegExp(StringRegExpReplace("? " & $sText, "(?i)(?<=[a-z])\-\r\n(?=[a-z])", ""), "\S+", 3)
$aArray[0] = UBound($aArray) -1
_ArrayDisplay($aArray)

;

It's the same approach as Melba23, but a little more fussy.

That's amazing ,i never thought such thing could be possible. this helped me alot,thanks!

[czardas]

I'm glad you liked that version. AutoIt is so rich with methods and I'm often surprised by things myself. Simple solutions are usually the best and also fundamental to learning. Sometimes there are many factors to consider and a more complicated solution is required.

The code I posted is not able to differentiate between a genuine word split and a hyphenated word interrupted by a line break. There is no general solution for that, as far as I know.

Edited October 17, 2014 by czardas

[mikell]

For the fun 

#Include <Array.au3>

Local $sText="Test text- - ,do-what-ever-you-want ,eat-apple ,write sug-" & @CRLF & "gestion and work hard" & @CRLF & "alot"

$aArray = StringSplit(StringRegExpReplace(StringRegExpReplace($sText, '\R|-(?=\w)', " "), '-\h+', ""), ',')
_ArrayDisplay($aArray)

Edited October 17, 2014 by mikell

[czardas]

I like the part about eating an apple.

[mikell]

Right.

For the fun AND for the apple 

[mohamad]

 

For the fun 

#Include <Array.au3>

Local $sText="Test text- - ,do-what-ever-you-want ,eat-apple ,write sug-" & @CRLF & "gestion and work hard" & @CRLF & "alot"

$aArray = StringSplit(StringRegExpReplace(StringRegExpReplace($sText, '\R|-(?=\w)', " "), '-\h+', ""), ',')
_ArrayDisplay($aArray)

... i probably should read more about StringRegExpReplace,used to use a long code to remove "-" between words ,

thanks , this meant more than fun to me .

Edited October 17, 2014 by mohamad