Get first letter of every word in a string-filled array

PHP
1

Hi everyone,

let’s say I have an array filled with strings, such as:

$complete_words = array("blue suede shoes", "organic coffee", "sunset champagne cruise");

How do I go from the above array to the one below:

$abbreviated_words = array("bss", "oc", "scc");

In other words, find the first letter of every word in the strings.

Anyone know how to do this?

Thanks in advance!

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try below code


$complete_words = array("blue suede shoes", "organic coffee", "sunset champagne cruise");
foreach ( $complete_words as $complete_word){
	preg_match_all('/\\b\\w/', $complete_word, $match);
	$abbreviated_words[] = implode("", $match[0]);
	
}
print_r('<pre>');print_r($abbreviated_words); print_r('</pre>');
3

Hi bhuthecoder,

thank you very much! :tup: It’s working great, much simpler than what I was trying to do.

I’ll have to read up on preg_match_all…

Thanks again for your assistance.