How to match string to an Array to get the value? - php

Question

I have an array with corresponding value.
Array
(
[0] => BBsma=200
[1] => SMAperiod=300
[2] => SMA1=400
[3] => SMA2=500
[4] => EMAperiod=300
[5] => EMA1=24
[6] => EMA2=8
)
Now I want to match a certain string like for example BBsma that should return 200. Any help?
Got the array using these codes.
$txt = file_get_contents('INDICATORS.txt');
$rows = explode("\n", $txt);
array_shift($rows);
INDICATORS.txt content
BBperiod=100
BBsma=200
SMAperiod=300
SMA1=400
SMA2=500
EMAperiod=300
EMA1=24
EMA2=8

Answer 1

After you explode your text to the lines use this code:
for($i=0;$i<sizeof($rows);$i++)
{
$temp=explode("=",$rows[$i]);
if(sizeof($temp)==2)
{
$arr[$temp[0]]=$temp[1];
}
}
You will have named array in $arr
if you want to cast second part to int, you just change 6-line to this:
$arr[$temp[0]]=intval($temp[1]);

Answer 2

You could iterate over every line of your array and find the value with a regular match.
Code:
$txt = file_get_contents('INDICATORS.txt');
$rows = explode("\n", $txt);
/*
$rows = [
"BBsma=200",
"SMAperiod=300",
"SMA1=400",
"SMA2=500",
"EMAperiod=300",
"EMA1=24",
"EMA2=8",
];
*/
foreach ($rows as $k=>$v) {
if (preg_match("/(BBsma|SMAperiod|EMAperiod)=([0-9]+)/", $v, $matches)) {
echo "found value " . $matches[2] . " for entry " . $matches[1] . " in line " . $k . PHP_EOL;
}
}
Output:
found value 200 for entry BBsma in line 0
found value 300 for entry SMAperiod in line 1
found value 300 for entry EMAperiod in line 4

Answer 3

You can explode by new line as PHP_EOL like this
$col = "BBsma";
$val = "";
foreach(explode(PHP_EOL,$str) as $row){
$cols = explode("=",$row);
if(trim($cols[0]) == $col){
$val = $cols[1];
break;
}
}
echo "Value $col is : $val";
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Answer 4

If your going to use the array a few times, it may be easier to read the file into an associative array in the first place...
$rows = [];
$file = "INDICATORS.txt";
$data = file($file, FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES);
foreach ( $data as $item ) {
$row = explode("=", $item);
$rows [$row[0]] = $row[1];
}
echo "EMA1 =".$rows['EMA1'];
This doesn't do the array_shift() but not sure why it's used, but easy to add back in.
This outputs...
EMA1 =24

Answer 5

I think that using array filter answers your question the best. It returns an array of strings with status code 200. If you wanted to have better control later on and sort / search through codes. I would recommend using array_walk to create some sort of multi dimensional array. Either solution will work.
<?php
$arr = [
"BBsma=200",
"SMAperiod=300",
"SMA1=400",
"SMA2=500",
"EMAperiod=300",
"EMA1=24",
"EMA2=8",
];
$filtered = array_filter($arr,"filter");
function filter($element) {
return strpos($element,"=200");
}
var_dump($filtered); // Returns array with all matching =200 codes: BBSMA=200
Output:
array (size=1)
0 => string 'BBsma=200' (length=9)
Should you want to do more I would recommend doing something like this:
///////// WALK The array for better control / manipulation
$walked = [];
array_walk($arr, function($item, $key) use (&$walked) {
list($key,$value) = explode("=", $item);
$walked[$key] = $value;
});
var_dump($walked);
This is going to give you an array with the parameter as the key and status code as it's value. I originally posted array_map but quickly realized array walk was a cleaner solution.
array (size=7)
'BBsma' => string '200' (length=3)
'SMAperiod' => string '300' (length=3)
'SMA1' => string '400' (length=3)
'SMA2' => string '500' (length=3)
'EMAperiod' => string '300' (length=3)
'EMA1' => string '24' (length=2)
'EMA2' => string '8' (length=1)
Working with the array becomes a lot easier this way:
echo $walked['BBsma']; // 200

Answer 6

$anything = array("BBsma"=>"200", "SMAperiod"=>"300", "SMA1"=>"400");
echo "the value is " . $anything['BBsma'];
This will return 200