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Jassi Oberoi
Jassi Oberoi

Reputation: 1424

Convert string to array in php

I got a result set in array format and i want to make square bracket value as a key and the other one as a value

here is my code 

[Name]asdasdasd [Email][email protected] [Phone Number]42342342342 [Subject]dsafsdfsd [Company Name]ZXZXZX [Country]Antarctica

i want output like :- array("name"=>"asdasdasd", "Email"=>"[email protected]");

how can i do this in PHP any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks Jassi

Upvotes: 4

Views: 5457

Answers (3)

Aram Kocharyan
Aram Kocharyan

Reputation: 20421

You could do:

<?php
$str = '[Name]asdasdasd [Email][email protected] [Phone Number]42342342342 [Subject]dsafsdfsd [Company Name]ZXZXZX [Country]Antarctica ';

preg_match_all('#\[([^\]]+)\]\s*([^\]\[]*[^\]\[\s])#msi', $str, $matches);

$keys = $matches[1];
$values = $matches[2];

// PHP 5
var_dump( array_combine($keys, $values) );
?>

array(6) {
  ["Name"]=>
  string(9) "asdasdasd"
  ["Email"]=>
  string(13) "[email protected]"
  ["Phone Number"]=>
  string(11) "42342342342"
  ["Subject"]=>
  string(9) "dsafsdfsd"
  ["Company Name"]=>
  string(6) "ZXZXZX"
  ["Country"]=>
  string(10) "Antarctica"
}

The regex is a bit more complicated looking, but it basically matches anything but [], allows whitespace in the value and makes sure that the last character isn't [] or whitespace. You could probably get away with ([^\]\[\s]+) if you knew you were never going to have spaces.

Upvotes: 2

bendataclear
bendataclear

Reputation: 3850

You could adapt this code below for your exact formatting (from this article):

<?php

$assoc_array = array("Key1" => "Value1", "Key2" => "Value2");

$new_array = array_map(create_function('$key, $value', 'return $key.":".$value." # ";'), array_keys($assoc_array), array_values($assoc_array));

print implode($new_array);

?>

Which will output:

Key1:Value1 # Key2:Value2 #

Upvotes: 1

Bram
Bram

Reputation: 1112

There's no point in someone giving you the exact code, this can be done with some basic functions. Read up on some of the following functions and work something out for yourself, learn ;)

Or if you're feeling adventurous, there's always: preg_match_all().

Upvotes: 0

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