Question

For example I have the following paragraph

When you are ready to complete the interview, click Interview me . Don’t worry, you will have a chance to practice before you take the full interview. The job closing date is December 30, 2030 so make sure you have your response back to us by then. Thanks for applying.

I need to delete the entire sentence containing ‘December 30, 2030’.

Please suggest a solution.

Answer 1

You can do this multiple ways, but I would just use this method:

1. Explode your string on .
2. Go through your values and keep only the ones, where December 30, 2030 is not present.

But this will have problems if you havea . inside a sentence. In this case, you will need to think of a different way to sepperate your sentences from each other.

$string = "When you are ready to complete the interview, click Interview me . Don't worry, you will have a chance to practice before you take the full interview. The job closing date is December 30, 2030 so make sure you have your response back to us by then. Thanks for applying.";
$search = "December 30, 2030";

$sentences = explode( '.', $string );

$new_string = '';
foreach ( $sentences as $sentece )
{
    if ( !strpos( $sentece, $search ) )
        $new_string .= $sentece . '.';
}

Output:

When you are ready to complete the interview, click Interview me . Don't worry, you will have a chance to practice before you take the full interview. Thanks for applying.