2 sep 2012 kl. 19.48 skrev John Taylor-Johnston:
> How can I clean this up?
>>> My approach would be to split the hole text into smaller chunks (with e.g. explode()) and extract the interesting parts with a regular expression. Maybe this will give you some ideas:
>>>> $chunks = explode("-30-", $mystring);
>>>> foreach($chunks as $chunk) {
>>>> preg_match_all("/News Releases\n(.+)/s", $chunk, $matches);
>>>> var_dump($matches[1]);
>>>> }
>>>> The regex matches all text between "News Releases" and the end of the chunk.
>> 2) How could I suck it into one nice easy to handle array?
>>
>> |$mynewarray=|array {
>> [0]=> "Residential Fire Determined to be Accidental in Nature ..."
>> [1]=> "Arrest Made in Residential Fire ..."
>> }
> I was hoping preg_match_all would return strings. I w/as hoping |$matches[1] was a string.|/
>
> source: http://www.cegepsherbrooke.qc.ca/~languesmodernes/test/test4.phps
> result: http://www.cegepsherbrooke.qc.ca/~languesmodernes/test/test4.php
Have you read up on 'preg_match_all' in the manual? What makes you think that preg_match_all returns strings? "$matches[1]", in the above case contains an array with all matches from the parenthesized subpattern, which is "(.+).
> This is ugly. How can I clean this up like this?
>
> $mynewarray= array {
> [0]=> "Residential Fire Determined to be Accidental in Nature ..."
> [1]=> "Arrest Made in Residential Fire ..."
> }
Why not add two lines of code within the first loop?
$chunks = explode("-30-", $mystring);
foreach($chunks as $chunk) {
preg_match_all("/News Releases\n(.+)/s", $chunk, $matches);
foreach($matches[1] as $matched_text_line) {
$mynewarray[] = $matched_text_line;
}
}
Besides the regex, this is pretty basic php.
/frank
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