Re: how to explode or split or chunk in an efficient way

On 07/24/2014 09:18 AM, Negin Nickparsa wrote:

I have a string which always has "C" then a number which it's length can change anytime and then "P" and then a space and then a word like: echo "C60P1 Unit"; is it anyway to split the string by type? from the manual I did this: function multiexplode ($delimiters,$string) {

     $ary = explode($delimiters[0],$string);
     array_shift($delimiters);
     if($delimiters != NULL) {
         foreach($ary as $key => $val) {
              $ary[$key] = multiexplode($delimiters, $val);
         }
     }
     return  $ary;

} echo "C60P1 Unit"; $str="C60P1 Unit"; $delimiters = Array("C","P"," "); $res = multiexplode($delimiters,$str); echo '<pre>'; print_r($res); echo '</pre>'; but it seems to me it is so complex for such a small string does anything for type exist which I don't know about to for example just grab the numbers?because I just care about the numbers here 60 and 1 seperately

Try this <?php $in = "C60P1 Unit"; $regex = "/C(?P<C>[0-9]+)P(?P<P>[0-9]+) (?P<D>.*)/"; preg_match($regex, $in, $m); print_r($m); ?> Array (

    [0] => C60P1 Unit
    [C] => 60
    [1] => 60
    [P] => 1
    [2] => 1
    [D] => Unit
    [3] => Unit

) -- Jim Lucas http://www.cmsws.com/ http://www.cmsws.com/examples/