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Posted by "Richard Lynch" on 10/19/85 11:31
On Fri, November 4, 2005 12:09 pm, conditional motion wrote:
> New to php so please bear with me. I'm trying to parse through a
> field that has some information in it, the information is stored with
> other information and is delimited in a certain pattern so I figure
> using reg ex I can get the information I want out of the text.
>
> So here is an example.
>
> Silver Small Corp;;;;;X^%%%%%\n#####\n
> Gold Medium Corp;;;;;RE^%%%%%\n#####\n
> Platinum Large Corp;;;;;YRE^%%%%%\n#####\n
>
> Reall all I need is the information on Silver Small Corp, etc and the
> X all the rest is gibberish. Is Reg Ex the best way to do this or
> would it be some other way.
Try this (untested):
<?php
$pattern = '/^([^;]*);([^;]*);([^;]*);.*$/m';
//repeat this /^^^^^^\ for each ; bit you need
preg_match_all($pattern, $data, $fields);
var_dump($fields);
?>
The 'm' at the end might need to be an 's', but I think 'm' is right.
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