Rene Fournier wrote:
Hi, I'm looking for some ideas on the best way to parse blocks of text
that is formatted such as:
$sometext %\r\n -- good data
$otherstring %\r\n -- good data
$andyetmoretext %\r\n -- good data
$finaltext -- bad data (missing ending)
Each line should start with a $dollar sign, then some arbitrary text,
ends with a percent sign, followed by carriage-return and line-feed.
Sometimes though, the final line is not complete. In that case, I want
to save those lines too.
....so that I end up with an array like:
$result = array ( "matches" =>
array ( 0 => "$sometext %\r\n",
1 => "$otherstring %\r\n",
2 => "$andyetmoretext %\r\n"
),
"non_matches" =>
array ( 3 => "$finaltext"
)
);
The key thing here is that the line numbers are preserved and the
non-matched lines are saved...
Any ideas, what's the best way to go about this? Preg_matc, preg_split
or something incorporating explode?
....Rene
Where does the text come from, a text file? client-side textarea? DB? etc.?
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