help breaking something apart

[smerny]

I'm trying to efficiently break this apart:

 

boolean com.xxx.xxx.xxx.setValue(int, String, String)

 

so that I store "boolean", "com..xxx.xxx.xxx.setValue" and "int, String, String"

 

me trying to do this would be getting the substr up to the location of the first space, then trying to find the last period, etc.. I don't know regex well but I've seen people do things with regex in ways that seem much more efficient. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

[JAY6390]

$subject = 'boolean com.xxx.xxx.xxx.setValue(int, String, String)';
if (preg_match('/([^\s]+)\s(com\.[^(]+)\(([^)]+)\)/', $subject, $matches)) {
echo 'Group 1: ' . $matches[1] . '<br />';
echo 'Group 2: ' . $matches[2] . '<br />';
echo 'Group 3: ' . $matches[3] . '<br />';
}

 

Output:

Group 1: boolean
Group 2: com.xxx.xxx.xxx.setValue
Group 3: int, String, String

[smerny]

oh sorry, meant to have this:

 

com.xxx.xxx.xxx.setValue

 

also broken into

 

"com.xxx.xxx.xxx" and "setValue"

[JAY6390]

$subject = 'boolean com.xxx.xxx.xxx.setValue(int, String, String)';
if (preg_match('/([^\s]+)\s(com\.[^(]+)\.([^\.]+)\(([^)]+)\)/', $subject, $matches)) {
echo 'Group 1: ' . $matches[1] . '<br />';
echo 'Group 2: ' . $matches[2] . '<br />';
echo 'Group 3: ' . $matches[3] . '<br />';
echo 'Group 4: ' . $matches[4] . '<br />';
}

[smerny]

thanks, where should i look if i want to learn regex more btw?

[JAY6390]

google 

There's no real answer, I've learnt from all over tbh