Re: Simple RegEx question

On Dec 24, 2007, at 7:34 PM, M5 <m5@renefournier.com> wrote:

I'm learning regular expressions, and trying to figure out what's possible and what's not. Any ideas of how to create a preg_match expression to parse following three lines: Calgary, AB T2A6C1

Toronto, ON     T4M 0B0
Saint John,  NB    E2L 4L1

...such that it splits each line into City, Province and Postalcode (irrespective of occasional white space), e.g.: Array (

   [city]    => "Calgary",
   [prov]    => "AB",
   [postal]    => "T2A 6C1"

) Array (

   [city]    => "Toronto",
   [prov]    => "ON",

[postal]=> "T4M 0B0" ) Array (

   [city]    => "Saint John",
   [prov]    => "NB",

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Try this: $places = array(); $lines = explode("\n", $toparse); foreach ($lines as $i => $line)

    list($places[$i]['city'], $places[$i]['prov'], $places[$i]['postal']) = explode(' ', $line, 3);'