[SOLVED] Splitting Strings

[cs1h]

Hi,

 

does anyone know a simple way to split the following string.

 

x,1,3,42,2,5,7,y,x,1,8,4,3,y,x,5,3,3,4,y,x,2,8,7,4,6,y

 

I want to split it into sections, x and y being the start and end of each section.

 

Can anyone suggest a simple way to do it?

 

Thanks,

Cs1h

[ignace]

$section = array();
$sections = array();
$string = 'x,1,3,42,2,5,7,y,x,1,8,4,3,y,x,5,3,3,4,y,x,2,8,7,4,6,y';
$parts = explode(',', $string);
foreach ($parts as $part) {
    if ('x' === $part && !empty($section)) {
        $sections[] = implode(',', $section);
        $section = array();
    }
    $section[] = $part;
}

print_r($sections);

 

Outputs:

 

Array ( [0] => x,1,3,42,2,5,7,y [1] => x,1,8,4,3,y [2] => x,5,3,3,4,y ) 

[Mark Baker]

$string='x,1,3,42,2,5,7,y,x,1,8,4,3,y,x,5,3,3,4,y,x,2,8,7,4,6,y';

preg_match_all('/x,([^y]*),y/U',$string,$matches);
print_r($matches[1]);

[cs1h]

Hi,

 

That's great and thanks to both of you for the quick response.

 

Cheers,

Cs1h