James Cridland jamescridland
jamescridland
/ indefinite_article.php
Created
February 21, 2011 23:01
— forked from samstarling/indefinite_article.php
A little bit of PHP to return "a" and "an" correctly.
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| <? | |
| // Usage: | |
| echo "I have ".return_indefinitearticle("apple")." apple, and ".return_indefinitearticle("slice of bread")." slice of bread."; | |
| function return_indefinitearticle($thing) { | |
| return (preg_match('/^[aeiou]|s\z/i', strtolower($thing))) ? "an" : "a"; | |
| } | |
| ?> |