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Re: split array and string from string (trust me it will make sense when you read) [message #180811 is a reply to message #180800]

Wed, 20 March 2013 00:34

cph
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Truth be told I don't know anything about regex. I threw together an example of how I think I can step though a string to do this.

$actions = array();
$done = false;
while (!$done) {
$start = strpos($content, "[");
$end = strpos($content, "]");
$equal = strpos($content, "=");
$key = "";
$value = "";
if ($equal != false && $equal > $start && $equal < $end) {
$key = substr($content, $start + 1, $equal - $start);
$value = substr($content, $equal + 1, $end - $equal);
if (array_key_exists($key, $actions)) {
if (is_array($actions[$key])) {
$actions[$key][] = $value;
}else{
$existing_value = $actions[$key];
$actions[$key] = array ($existing_value, $value);
}
}else{
$actions[$key] = $value;
}
str_replace("[" . $key . "=" . $value . "]", "", $content, 1);
}else{
$key = substr($content, $start + 1, $end - $start);
$actions[$key] = true;
str_replace("[" . $key . "]", "", $content, 1);
}
if ($start == false || $end == false) {
$done = true;
}
}

This should...in theory find the first set of brackets if there is a "=" it should separate out the part before the = as the key and the part after as the value, add to an array, using a sub array if the same key is duplicated with different values. If not it will just store the text as the key with a value of true. It will then replace the full sub-string from [ to ] with null effectively removing it then search for the next one until it finds no more bracket sets.

Any feedback, ideas on a better implementation?

On Tuesday, March 19, 2013 6:06:28 AM UTC-7, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> On 3/19/2013 12:12 AM, CloudPress wrote:
>
>> I have a string that consists of several key value pairs such as [key=value], a given key may appear more than once.
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>> For example a string of:
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>> "Hello world, [key=value] [key2=value1] This is just a test. [key=value2]"
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>> I want to do two things, one I want an easier way to view the key value pairs, I am thinking an array
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>> array ('key' => array ('value', 'value2'), 'key2' => 'value1');
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>> Secondly I want the key/value pairs removed from the string so I would get the array and a new string that would look like this:
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>> "Hello world, This is just a test."
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>> What would be the easiest way to accomplish this?
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> Maybe a regex?
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		split array and string from string (trust me it will make sense when you read) By: cph on Tue, 19 March 2013 04:12
		Re: split array and string from string (trust me it will make sense when you read) By: cph on Tue, 19 March 2013 04:17
		Re: split array and string from string (trust me it will make sense when you read) By: Jerry Stuckle on Tue, 19 March 2013 13:06
		Re: split array and string from string (trust me it will make sense when you read) By: cph on Wed, 20 March 2013 00:34
		Re: split array and string from string (trust me it will make sense when you read) By: Jerry Stuckle on Wed, 20 March 2013 00:45
		Re: split array and string from string (trust me it will make sense when you read) By: cph on Wed, 20 March 2013 00:56
		Re: split array and string from string (trust me it will make sense when you read) By: Christoph Becker on Wed, 20 March 2013 01:21
		Re: split array and string from string (trust me it will make sense when you read) By: Jerry Stuckle on Wed, 20 March 2013 01:43

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