Saving values from a variable to an array - php

Question

I have a long string variable that contains coordinates
I want to keep each coordinate in a separate cell in the array according to Lat and Lon..
For example. The following string:
string = "(33.110029967689556, 35.60865999564635), (33.093492845160036, 35.63955904349791), (33.0916232355565, 35.602995170206896)";
I want this:
arrayX[0] = "33.110029967689556";
arrayX[1] = "33.093492845160036";
arrayX[2] = "33.0916232355565";
arrayY[0] = "35.60865999564635";
arrayY[1] = "35.63955904349791";
arrayY[2] = "35.602995170206896";
Does anyone have an idea ?
Thanks

Answer 1

Use substr to modify sub string, it allow you to do that with a little line of code.
$array_temp = explode('),', $string);
$arrayX = [];
$arrayY = [];
foreach($array_temp as $at)
{
$at = substr($at, 1);
list($arrayX[], $arrayY[]) = explode(',', $at);
}
print_r($arrayX);
print_r($arrayY);

Answer 2

The simplest way is probably to use a regex to match each tuple:
Each number is a combination of digits and .: the regex [\d\.]+ matches that;
Each coordinate has the following format: (, number, ,, space, number,). The regex is \([\d\.]+,\s*[\d\.]+\).
Then you can capture each number by using parenthesis: \(([\d\.]+),\s*([\d\.]+)\). This will produce to capturing groups: the first will contain the X coordinate and the second the Y.
This regex can be used with the method preg_match_all.
<?php
$string = '(33.110029967689556, 35.60865999564635), (33.093492845160036, 35.63955904349791), (33.0916232355565, 35.602995170206896)';
preg_match_all('/\(([\d\.]+)\s*,\s*([\d\.]+)\)/', $string, $matches);
$arrayX = $matches['1'];
$arrayY = $matches['2'];
var_dump($arrayX);
var_dump($arrayY);
For a live example see http://sandbox.onlinephpfunctions.com/code/082e8454486dc568a6557058fef68d6f10c8dbd0

Answer 3

My suggestion, working example here: https://3v4l.org/W99Uu
$string = "(33.110029967689556, 35.60865999564635), (33.093492845160036, 35.63955904349791), (33.0916232355565, 35.602995170206896)";
// Split by each X/Y pair
$array = explode("), ", $string);
// Init result arrays
$arrayX = array();
$arrayY = array();
foreach($array as $pair) {
// Remove parentheses
$pair = str_replace('(', '', $pair);
$pair = str_replace(')', '', $pair);
// Split into two strings
$arrPair = explode(", ", $pair);
// Add the strings to the result arrays
$arrayX[] = $arrPair[0];
$arrayY[] = $arrPair[1];
}

Answer 4

You need first to split the string into an array. Then you clean the value to get only the numbers. Finally, you put the new value into the new array.
<?php
$string = "(33.110029967689556, 35.60865999564635), (33.093492845160036, 35.63955904349791), (33.0916232355565, 35.602995170206896)";
$loca = explode(", ", $string);
$arr_x = array();
$arr_y = array();
$i = 1;
foreach($loca as $index => $value){
$i++;
if ($i % 2 == 0) {
$arr_x[] = preg_replace('/[^0-9.]/', '', $value);
}else{
$arr_y[] = preg_replace('/[^0-9.]/', '', $value);
}
}
print_r($arr_x);
print_r($arr_y);
You can test it here :
http://sandbox.onlinephpfunctions.com/code/4bf04e7aabeba15ecfa114d8951eb771610a43a4