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gee-ell
gee-ell

Reputation: 1

Extract lines from a string PHP

So I've got a string being added via imap in a PHP script. There's always 12 lines in the email - always. I need to be able to assign each line to a variable.

Usually, I'd use some markers to signify the end/start of the value from the email but that's not an option in this case (they're being sent from ships and so a larger email means more money).

The email looks like -

CCL21045
04/03/2020
1800
32.50
17.20
Nil
Nil

It's all sent as one block with no white space in between the lines. I need to get the 4 lines above into their own variables.

Any help would be appreciated!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1025

Answers (2)

pankaj
pankaj

Reputation: 1906

Best Way to do this.

$getListAArr= explode(PHP_EOL, $email);

print_r($getListAArr);

// Output

[
"CCL21045",
"04/03/2020",
"1800",
"32.50",
"17.20",
"Nil",
"Nil",
]

Upvotes: 0

newfurniturey
newfurniturey

Reputation: 38436

If you know that the format will always be in the same order, you could use PHP's explode() to split the input by lines into individual variables. Something like:

[$report_date, $coordinates, $speed, $destination, ] = explode("\n", $email);

Even if it's not in a specific order, you can still use explode() to split the input into an array and loop over each line to match it to what you want/need. i.e.:

$lines = explode("\n", $email);
foreach ($lines as $line) {
    if (preg_match('@^\d{2}/\d{2}\d{4}$@', $line)) {
        $report_date = $line;
    }

    // ... more rules for other input types
}

Upvotes: 1

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