Create acronym from a string containing only words

Asked 2010-09-09T14:56:03.423

I'm looking for a way that I can extract the first letter of each word from an input field and place it into a variable.

Example: if the input field is "Stack-Overflow Questions Tags Users" then the output for the variable should be something like "SOQTU"

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$s = 'Stack-Overflow Questions Tags Users';
echo preg_replace('/\b(\w)|./', '$1', $s);

the same as codaddict's but shorter

For unicode support, add the u modifier to regex: preg_replace('...../u',

answered 2010-09-09T16:11:16.597

Regular expression matching as codaddict says above, or str_word_count() with 1 as the second parameter, which returns an array of found words. See the examples in the manual. Then you can get the first letter of each word any way you like, including substr($word, 0, 1)

answered 2010-09-09T15:02:19.867

Create acronym from a string containing only words

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