Hi guys,

basically what I am trying to do is,

I have an array that looks something like this:

array(
  array(
    'select' =>'first string',
    'escape' => true
  ),
  array(
    'select' =>'second',
    'escape' => true
  ),
  array(
    'select' =>'the third string',
    'escape' => true
  ),
  array(
    'select' =>'fourth string',
    'escape' => false
  ),
)

I am looping over it and I want to end up with this output

array(
  array(
    'select' =>'`first` string',
    'escape' => true
  ),
  array(
    'select' =>'`second`',
    'escape' => true
  ),
  array(
    'select' =>'`the` third string',
    'escape' => true
  ),
  array(
    'select' =>'fourth string',
    'escape' => false
  ),
)

so basic rules are

• backticks are only applied if escape is true
• backticks are only applied to the first word in a sentence
• if there is only one word backticks are applied to the word

My plan was to use

if($item['escape']) {
  $pos = (strpos($item['select'], ' ') === false ? strlen($item['select']) : strpos($item['select'], ' '));
  $item['select'] = '`' . substr($item['select'], 0, $pos) . '`' . substr($item['select'], $pos, strlen($item['select']));
}

but the $item['select'] = line seems rather long winded, is there a better way to write it?