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Cornwell
Cornwell

Reputation: 3410

Get text and numbers

I have the following strings:

Some random 516 text100.
text3.

How could I programmatically obtain something like:

$a[0]["text"] = Some random 516 text
$a[0]["id"] = 100

$a[1]["text"] = text
$a[1]["id"] = 3

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 93

Answers (2)

Orabîg
Orabîg

Reputation: 11992

This works :

$input = array("Some random 516 text100.",
        "text3.");

$output=array();

foreach ($input as $text) {
    preg_match('/(.*?)(\d+)\./',$text,$match);
    array_shift($match); // removes first element
    array_push($output,$match);
}

print_r($output);

outputs :

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [0] => Some random 516 text
            [1] => 100
        )

    [1] => Array
        (
            [0] => text
            [1] => 3
        )

)

Upvotes: 3

complex857
complex857

Reputation: 20753

If your input is this regular you can use a regexps.

note: this version requires a . under the text<number> part, you might need to tweak this depending on your input:

$in='Some random 516 text100.
text3.';

preg_match_all('/^(?<text>.*?text)(?<id>\d+)\./im', $in, $m);
$out = array();
foreach ($m['id'] as $i => $id) {
    $out[] = array('id' => $id, 'text' => $m['text'][$i]);
}
var_export($out);

The foreach massage the results into the requested format, you might not need that if you can use the one preg_match_all() returns originally.

Upvotes: 2

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