Script to Sort List of Words by Character Length...

DomainBELL · Mar 23, 2010

Hi There...

Anyone know of an open source script
(php) that will do the following:

Take a list of words that I copy paste
into it - and reorganize them by
character length -- from least to most...

Where can I find that ??

Or are you a php script whiz and want
to whip it up - for me to test...
($5.usd via PayPal - if you write it
and it works the way I want it to...
smile)

NOTE:
Needs to be unlimited in the amount
of words able to be copy pasted into
it for sorting...
(unlimited - or 25k words at a time)

:wave:
~Patricia Kaehler - DomainBELL

SeanPreston · Mar 23, 2010

Is this for YOU to use as a tool? if so aren't there tools which are downloadable to do this already?

nasaboy007 · Mar 23, 2010

I'm not a linux user, but I found that you can do this in one linux command:

cat $@ | awk '{ print length, $0 }' | sort -n | awk '{$1=""; print $0}'

To be honest, no idea how it works (no linux experience), but maybe some of the more linux-savvy NPers can explain how to use it / what it does.

Of course, unless you have linux installed, you'd have to set up a virtual machine or something (which may be more effort than it's worth...)

DomainBELL · Mar 23, 2010

thanks for the responses...

BTW I always do SEARCH first...
Or I wouldn't have bothered to post the question...

Anyone know someone that can whip out a quick php script to do this...

I'm searching for the name of an NPer that used to write scripts for me
all the time... I think he was in Arizona... I can't for the life of me
find his info... grrrr....

~Patricia

qbert220 · Mar 23, 2010

PHP:

<?php

$array = array (
'anteater',
'bear',
'cheetah',
);

function cmp($a, $b) {
    return strlen($a) - strlen($b);
}

usort($array, 'cmp');

print_r($array);

?>

If the string you want to search are in a file, then:

PHP:

$array = file('filename.txt', FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINE);

qbert220 · Mar 24, 2010

Here is a version that displays a form to enter the words.

PHP:

<?php

function cmp($a, $b) {
    return strlen($a) - strlen($b);
}

function print_array(&$arr) {
    echo "<pre>";
    foreach ($arr as $val) {
        echo htmlentities($val)."\n";
    }
    echo "</pre>";
}

echo '<html>
<head>
<title>Length Sorter</title>
</head>
<body>
';

if (isset($_POST['text'])) {
    $text = preg_split('/\s+/', trim($_POST['text']));
    
    usort($text, 'cmp');

    echo "<hr>After sorting:<br>\n";
    print_array($text);
    echo "<hr>\n";
}

echo '
Enter items below, one per line:
<form method="POST" action="'.$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'">
<textarea name="text" rows="10" cols="20">
</textarea>
<br>
<input type="submit" name="Sort">
</form>
</body>
</html>
';
?>

DomainBELL · Mar 24, 2010

thank you kindly...

I'll give that a try today...

Sincerely APPRECIATED...

~Patricia - DomainBELL

:blink:

DomainBELL · Mar 25, 2010

qbert220 -- Ian

Thanks for your help...
I sent you some NP$
(instead of PP)
Ribbon UP - giggle...
~Patricia - DomainBELL

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