Parsing Text

[jadoo1989]

I have a webpage which I have completely stripped of HTML and other code to have just plain text. This text is one long string with words delimited by spaces in the following format:

 

Name: First Name Last Name Date Of Birth: 07/23/82  Member For 180 days. etc..

 

How can I parse this text so I can read over the  the categories and extract the data into variables, even if the data is seperated by multiple words and even if the data itself is comprised of multiple words?

[monkeytooth]

explode()

[rajivgonsalves]

A sample of your data would help ?

[jadoo1989]

Name: First Name Last Name Date Of Birth: 07/23/82  Member For 180 days. etc..

 

Is the data.

 

So, Name: Bob Dole Date of Birth: 06/06/06 Member for: 180 days. Alias used in game: BobD

[mikesta707]

The exact data would be more helpful. IS that it, or is there more (It seems like there is more, you have that etc... there)

[jadoo1989]

An example would be: Name: Bob Dole Date of Birth: 06/06/06 Member for: 180 days. Alias used in game: BobD

 

The full data would be miles and miles long considering I'm trying to parse sort of a profile page. The issue is multi-word categories and the fact that the data that needs to be stored could vary in amount of words from one profile to the next.  Could I some way step through the string and parse values between categories? For instance, Say I'm starting with name and I make it store everything after Name to the beginning of Date of Birth and then make it store everything after Date of Birth to the beginning of Member for: so on and so forth throughout the entire string until all values are stored appropriately? The categories always appear by the same spelling and order, so they're static.

[rajivgonsalves]

from the data you specified this should work

 

<?php
$str = 'Name: Bob Dole Date of Birth: 06/06/06 Member for: 180 days. Alias used in game: BobD';

preg_match("#Name: (.*?) Date of Birth: (.*?) Member for: (.*?) Alias used in game: ([^\b]+)#i", $str, $matches);

print_r($matches);

?>