parsing a string of text

[supermerc]

Hey

 

I have a variable $v[1] that either turns out as:

 

Deposited item (#######)

 

or:

 

Awarded item (#######) to Name

 

I want to separate those into different variables. For example if its Deposited I want item to be in separate variable alone and the ######## to be in another variable alone.

 

If its awarded I want Item and ###### to be in variables alone but I also want Name to be in a variable alone as well.

 

Can anyone help me?

 

 

[.josh]

   preg_match("~(?:Deposited|Awarded)\s([^\b]+?)\b\s\(([^\)]*)\)(?:\sto\b\s([^\b]+)\b)?~",$s,$match);
   echo "<pre>"; print_r($match); echo "</pre>";

[.josh]

Actually I think this is probably a little better

preg_match("~(?:Deposited|Awarded)\s([^\s]+)\s\(([^\)]+)\)(?:\sto\s([^\b]+))?~",$s,$match);
echo "<pre>"; print_r($match); echo "</pre>";

[supermerc]

all it does is echos

 

Array

(

)

Array

(

)

 

A bunch of times :S

[.josh]

Really? Because when I do this:

<?php
$string[] = "Deposited item (#######)";
$string[] = "Awarded item (#######) to Name";

foreach ($string as $s) {
   preg_match("~(?:Deposited|Awarded)\s([^\s]+)\s\(([^\)]+)\)(?:\sto\s([^\b]+))?~",$s,$match);
 echo "<pre>"; print_r($match); echo "</pre>";
}	 
?>

 

I get

 

Array
(
    [0] => Deposited item (#######)
    [1] => item
    [2] => #######
)

Array
(
    [0] => Awarded item (#######) to Name
    [1] => item
    [2] => #######
    [3] => Name
)

[supermerc]

Well how is it supposed to work if my variable isnt in there?  ???

[.josh]

what do you mean? put your variable in the place of $s

[supermerc]

I changed it to

 

preg_match("~(?:Deposited|Awarded)\s([^\s]+)\s\(([^\)]+)\)(?:\sto\s([^\b]+))?~",$v[1],$match);
echo "<pre>"; print_r($match); echo "</pre>";

 

and its still doing same thing

[.josh]

Well then $v[1] is not the string/format you posted.

[supermerc]

Well just before that bit of code you gave me I echoed out $v[1] and I get

 

Deposited Surper Oil (7825939)

 

Array

(

)

 

Awarded Vampire Fangs (7786635) to ServeD

 

Array

(

)

 

Awarded Vampire Fangs (7786390) to ServeD

 

Array

(

)

[.josh]

Okay so the problem is that you didn't specify that 'item' could be more than 1 word.  You get what you ask for.

 

preg_match("~(?:Deposited|Awarded)\s([^\(]+)\s\(([^\)]+)\)(?:\sto\s([^\b]+))?~",$s,$match);

[supermerc]

okay it works now

 

will it still work if its 3 or 4 words?

[.josh]

yes.