Re: Creating $key, $value pairs

Hank Marquardt wrote: > Actually you're OK here (I think ...) if a few of them end up blank, > that's OK, just ignore them, you'll know the ones you want based on the > real email you receive ... as for the folks putting To: someone, From: > someone ... I wrote the regex to accomodate that ... it takes anything > up to the first ':' and claims that as the variable name, then discards > the ':' after and finally grabs the rest of the line (.*) as the > remainder ... that can include ':' without problem ... in fact if you > look at your example, it handles the first 'timestamp' field just fine:) Yeap, I noticed that as soon as I ran the first (full) email through it. And of course, there're some problems. The incoming email has two "sections" in it which will contain the same variables. What I posted only contained a 'BILL TO:' section. The full email also contains a 'SHIP TO:' section. But because the script creates variables based on the fields in the email, it overwrites the first section: SHIP TO: Business Name: Contact Name: PhotoCraft Day Number: 303.442.6410 Evening Number: Fax Number: Address: 3550 Arapahoe Ave Address: Suite 6 Address: City: Boulder State/Province: CO Zip/Postal Code: 80303 Country: USA BILL TO: Business Name: Contact Name: Ashley M. Kirchner Day Number: 800 555-1212 Evening Number: 303 555-1212 Fax Number: Address: 3550 Arapahoe Ave #6 Address: Address: City: Boulder State/Province: CO Zip/Postal Code: 80303 Country: USA This is part of why I asked whether it was possible to use my own variable naming, so I could end up with one of: $ShipToContact $BillToContact $ShipToDayPhone $BillToDayPhone $ShipToEvePhone $BillToEvePhone or: $ShipTo['contact'] $BillTo['contact'] $ShipTo['DayPhone'] $BillTo['dayphone'] $ShipTo['EvePhone'] $BillTo['evephone'] And then there's still the order items themselves. Right now, the script is cutting the lines because of the : matching. So, a line like this (wrapping alert): ORDER NO. QTY UNIT DESCRIPTION PRICE TOTAL 4x6 1 4"x6" Standard Print (full-frame from 35mm) Image:Uploaded Image 1 .75 $0.75 ...will end up: $key: 4x614x6StandardPrint(full-framefrom35mm)Image $val: 'Uploaded Image 1 .75 $0.75' ORDER HERE: Item: 0 Itemnum -> 4x6 Quantity -> 1 Not quite what it should be. I think I'm going to limit where it should do the $key -> $value matching, and figure something else out for the rest of the message. > the > whole thing would be a lot easier in the last one if they actually tab > delimit the fields, then a simple split() call would handle it nicely > but what you posted was spaces. Yeah, the original incoming email is a mess really. No tab delimited anything, and some of the fields have extraneous spaces after each value, some just have a row of spaces (if the value's blank), some 80 characters long. -- 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.