Variable matching...

Can anyone help me with translating the following (which was written in something else): [NOTE: I've simplified the code for this purpose] pairs = {{"First Name", "first_name"},{"Address", "address"}}; while (data) { line = split($data, " "); for pair in (pairs) { if (match(line[1], pair[1])) { pair[2] = line[2]; } } } The idea here is that 'pairs' contains a list of items that the program uses, by matching the first item with 'data', and if it matches, it sets the second item with whatever 'data' is passing. With the above code, if 'data' was something like "First Name: John" (yes, with the spaces before the name), the result will basically set first_name to "John". And that variable 'first_name' can be used elsewhere in the code. When the 'data' contains 'Address' in it, it'll set the variable 'address' to whatever the second value is in data. The code itself contains a rather large set in 'pairs' that it goes through while there's 'data' for it to parse. However, as you can see, the code is also rather poorly written in that it cycles through the entire list in 'pairs' for every single line of 'data' there is. (this is why I'm trying to rewrite this whole beast into PHP and hopefully get something better). The data that comes flowing in looks like this: First Name: John Last Name: Doe Address: 12345 Fairy Lane Address: City: White Clouds State/Province: Cloud 9 Country: Heaven etc. etc. (there is more information that I need to capture after this) -- H | "Life is the art of drawing without an eraser." - John Gardner +-------------------------------------------------------------------- Ashley M. Kirchner <mailto:ashley@pcraft.com> . 303.442.6410 x130 Director of Internet Operations / SysAdmin . 800.441.3873 x130 Photo Craft Laboratories, Inc. . 3550 Arapahoe Ave, #6 http://www.pcraft.com ..... . . . Boulder, CO 80303, U.S.A.