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Steve
Steve

Reputation: 2588

Explode an Array that has a new line in it in PHP

I have an array that is separated by "|". What I wanna do is separate by this identifier.

The array is as follows:-

myid1|My Title|Detailed Description
myid2|My Title|Second Row Description
myid3|My Title|Third row description

What I did was that I just used explode on it to get my desired results.

$required_cells = explode('|', $bulk_array);

But the problem is (as shown below) that only my first array is properly exploded and the next first cell of the next array is mixed due to the "new line".

Is it possible that I can get the upper array in consecutive array cells?

Array
(
    [0] => myid1
    [1] => My Title 
    [2] => Detailed Description
myid2
    [3] => My Title 
    [4] => Second Row Description
myid3
    [5] => My Title 
    [6] => Second Row Description
)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 845

Answers (3)

Ende Neu
Ende Neu

Reputation: 15783

You can use array_map:

$str = "myid1|My Title|Detailed Description
  myid2|My Title|Second Row Description
  myid3|My Title|Third row description";

$newLine = (explode("\n", $str));
$temp = array();
$result = array_map(function($someStr) use(&$temp) { 
  $exploded = explode("|", $someStr); 
  foreach($exploded as $value) $temp[] = $value;
}, $newLine); 

print_r($temp);

Sandbox example, if you don't need it flatten you can drop the foreach part:

$str = "myid1|My Title|Detailed Description
  myid2|My Title|Second Row Description
  myid3|My Title|Third row description";

$newLine = (explode("\n", $str));
$result = array_map(function($someStr) { 
  return explode("|", $someStr); 
}, $newLine); 

print_r($result);

Upvotes: 1

TunaMaxx
TunaMaxx

Reputation: 1769

Explode on newlines, aka "\n" first, then loop through that array and explode on pipes, aka '|'

$bulk_array = "myid1|My Title|Detailed Description
myid2|My Title|Second Row Description
myid3|My Title|Third row description";

$lines = explode("\n", $bulk_array);

foreach ($lines as $key => $line)
{
    $lines[$key] = explode('|', $line);
}

Then print_r($lines); will output:

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [0] => myid1
            [1] => My Title
            [2] => Detailed Description
        )

    [1] => Array
        (
            [0] => myid2
            [1] => My Title
            [2] => Second Row Description
        )

    [2] => Array
        (
            [0] => myid3
            [1] => My Title
            [2] => Third row description
        )

)

Upvotes: 2

Rudie
Rudie

Reputation: 53841

You can use preg_split to explode on | and EOL:

$parts = preg_split('#(\||\r\n|\r|\n)#', $string); // EOL is actually 3 different types

Which makes 1 array with 9 elements.

Or first explode on EOL and then on |:

$lines = preg_split('#(\r\n|\r|\n)#', $string);
$lines = array_map(function($line) {
  return explode('|', trim($line));
});

Which makes 3 arrays with 3 elements each.

Upvotes: 2

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