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user2995618
user2995618

Reputation:

php preg_match regex special pattern

I need to use preg_match to get some part of a string and use them later. I'm not really good at using regex so, i hope you can help me with it.

My current regex :

$regex = '/(?P<name>\w+): (?P<agency>\w+)/';

My code so far:

$mail = imap_qprint(imap_body($mbox, $msgno)); 

$regex = '/(?P<name>\w+): (?P<agency>\w+)/';

preg_match($regex, $mail, $agency);
print_r($agency);

To keep it simple $mail looks like this (as an example):

Agency : Aname
Firstname : Fname
Lastname: Lname
Number of participant : 1

and i would like to get an array in $agency that can give me the Agency, First name and Last name, and with another regex (because i don't know if it's possible in only one) to get the number of participant.

Thanks in advance

Upvotes: 0

Views: 133

Answers (2)

Decrypter
Decrypter

Reputation: 37

How about: $regex = '/Agency\s*:\s*(\w+).*?Firstname\s*:\s*(\w+).*?Lastname:\s*(\w+).*?Number of participant\s*:\s*(\d+)/s'

Upvotes: 0

Pez Cuckow
Pez Cuckow

Reputation: 14422

With preg_match_all and (?P<name>.+)[:](?P<value>.+) you would get:

$matches Array:
(
    [name] => Array
        (
            [0] => Agency 
            [1] => Firstname 
            [2] => Lastname
            [3] => Number of participant 
        )

    [value] => Array
        (
            [0] =>  Aname
            [1] =>  Fname
            [2] =>  Lname
            [3] =>  1

You could read these off as

$data = array();
foreach($matches['name'] as $id => $name) {
    $data[$name] = trim($matches['value'][$id]);
}

Which would give you a key => value called $data with all the information.

EDIT: To make it a little more robust I would recommend using the multi-line flag and adding ^ and $ to your regex

preg_match_all('#^(?P<name>.+)[:](?P<value>.+)$#m',$sourcestring,$matches);
echo "<pre>".print_r($matches,true);

Upvotes: 0

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