Turn part of array value, into key.

[Zugzwangle]

Hi.

I have an array named $parts:

[0] => Event Rated game, 90m + 5s 
[1] => Site Room 1 
[2] => Date 2010.07.05... 

and I simply want to use the first word of the array 'Value', as the 'Key'.  so the new array would look like this:

[Event] => Rated game, 90m + 5s 
[site] => Room 1 
[Date] => 2010.07.05... 

Please help if you can.

[bh]

Hi,

 

Try something like this:

 

$new_array = array();
foreach ($parts as $value)
{
$new_key = explode(' ', $value);
$new_value = explode(' ', $value, 2);

$new_array[$new_key[0]]= $new_value[1];
}

[Zugzwangle]

That kind of works.  It results in:

Array ( 
[Event] => Rated game, 90m + 5s 
[ Site] => Room 1 
[ Date] => 2010.07.05 
[ Round] => ? ...

However there is a 'space' before Site for example.  I need to manipulate the data. 

echo $new_array[' Site'];  // outputs nothing.. 

How do I go about removing the white space if this is necessary?

 

[bh]

example with substr function

 

substr($string, 1);

[Zugzwangle]

Oh, thanks for your code btw.. also this is solved... I used the itrim() function..

 

foreach ($parts as $value)
	{
	$new_key = explode(' ', $value);
	$new_value = explode(' ', $value, 2);

	$new_array[ltrim($new_key[0])]= $new_value[1];
	}

[kenrbnsn]

Do something like:

<?php
$new_array = array();
foreach ($parts as $value)
{
    list($key,$entry) = explode(' ', $value,2);
    $new_array[trim($key)]= trim($entry);
}
echo '<pre>' . print_r($new_array,true) . '</pre>';
?>

 

ken

[AbraCadaver]

Just for fun:

 

foreach($parts as $value) {
preg_match('/([\w]+) (.*)/', $value, $matches);
$new[$matches[1]] = $matches[2];
}