Locating Neighbouring Words and Characters
Explore methods to locate neighboring words and characters in strings using Laravel. Understand how to retrieve words on the left and right of a position by leveraging helper functions, enabling precise string manipulation and enhancing text processing in PHP applications.
We will look at together is retrieving neighboring words from arbitrary positions. For example, given the sentence The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog, if we supplied position 6, we might want to be able to retrieve the word The on the left and the word brown on the right. There are a few ways we could approach implementing this. The first idea is to update our previous wordAt implementation and skip collecting the characters to ...