I have been trying convert many IMAP message bodies to something more readable (UTF-8 or equivalent). I cannot seem to find an out-of-the box function to work.
Here is an example of what I am trying to decode:
President Trump signed an executive order Thursday tar= geting North Korea=E2=80=99s trading partners, calling it a =E2=80=9Cpowerful=E2= =80=9D new tool aimed at isolating and de-nuclearizing the regime.
More on thi= s: http://www.foxnews.com= /politics/2017/09/21/trump-signs-executive-order-targeting-north-koreas-tra= ding-partners.html
(in the sample above, any "= ", there should be a newline)
A few things that I have tried:
iconv("UTF-8", "Windows-1252//TRANSLIT//IGNORE", $data);
//this resulted in a server error 500
imap_mime_header_decode($data);
//this outputs an array (just something that I tried; yes, I know that it is only good for headers)
iconv_mime_decode($test, 0, "ISO-8859-1");
//This works for a few messages (plaintext ones) but does not output anything for the example above; for others, it only outputs part of the message body
mb_convert_encoding($test, "UTF8");
//this results in another internal server error!
$data = str_replace("=92", "'", $data);
//I have also tried to manually find and replace an occurrence of a utf-7 (I guess) encoded string
Anyways, there is something that I am doing totally wrong but not sure what. How do you all read the body of an email retrieved with IMAP?
What are some other things that I can try? People must do just this the entire time but I can't seem to find a solution...
Thank you,
Rog
You're not actually dealing with the UTF-7 encoding here. What you're actually seeing is quoted-printable.
php contains a function to decode this
I actually haven't written php in quite some time so forgive my style failures, here's an example which decodes your text:
<?php
$s = 'President Trump signed an executive order Thursday tar= geting North Korea=E2=80=99s trading partners, calling it a =E2=80=9Cpowerful=E2= =80=9D new tool aimed at isolating and de-nuclearizing the regime.';
// It's unclear why I have to replace out `= `, I have a feeling these
// are actually newlines and copy paste error?
echo quoted_printable_decode(str_replace('= ', '', $s));
?>
When run it produces:
President Trump signed an executive order Thursday targeting North Korea’s trading partners, calling it a “powerful” new tool aimed at isolating and de-nuclearizing the regime.
Related
I came across the following error in PHP generated by an email forwarded from a Yahoo account:
Notice: Unknown: Invalid quoted-printable sequence: =?UTF-8?Q?ck-off with Weekly Sale up to 90% off (errflg=3) in Unknown on line 0
I've spent hours researching this issue and decided to send myself the exact same output string in an email without having Yahoo involved. The original q-encoded text that decodes correctly:
=?UTF-8?Q?GOG_Forward=3A_Fw=3A_=F0=9F=98=89_A_great_Monday_kick-?= =?UTF-8?Q?off_with_Weekly_Sale_up_to_90=25_off?=
The malformed q-encoded text from Yahoo:
=?UTF-8?Q?GOG_Forward =?UTF-8?Q?ck-off_with_Weekly_Sale_up_to_90%_off?=
The correct string when decoded:
GOG Forward: Fw: 😉 A great Monday kick-off with Weekly Sale up to 90% off
Roundcube manages to decode both the normal and the malformed text though I'm not sure how and 25 megabytes is a bit much to dig through and I haven't been able to determine even where they're decoding subject headers.
How do I fix Yahoo's malformed version of q-encoding?
<?php
//These fail:
echo imap_mime_header_decode($mail_message_headers['Subject']);
echo quoted_printable_decode($mail_message_headers['Subject']);
?>
For clarification the imap_fetchstructure page clarifies the value 4 for encoding is Quoted-Printable / ENCQUOTEDPRINTABLE.
New Development
It turns out that for some reason Yahoo sends the subject twice for the same header, one malformed and the other is not. Here is the Subject header from the raw email:
Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?GOG_Forward:_Fw:_=F0=9F=98=89_A_great_Monday_ki?=
=?UTF-8?Q?ck-off_with_Weekly_Sale_up_to_90%_off?=
MIME-Version: 1.0
I created a solution that uses Roundcube's source code to decode the message.
I posted the code and demo:
You can see it here
Click the big play button to preview the extraction
Go to code tab to see the extracted Roundcube code that you could use for your project
Since you mentioned to not use classes in the example I extracted Roundcube's decode_mime_string() function from rube_mime, and a couple of things from rcube_charset such as $aliases, parse_charset(), and convert().
As far as decoding the malformed text from Yahoo:
=?UTF-8?Q?GOG_Forward =?UTF-8?Q?ck-off_with_Weekly_Sale_up_to_90%_off?=
Into this:
GOG Forward: Fw: 😉 A great Monday kick-off with Weekly Sale up to 90% off
It's impossible. There's not enough data in there. For example it's missing the "😉 A great Monday ki". Do you have the full source of the email address?
I'm facing a slight issue with an idea.
I use a chat feature within an online forum on all my computing devices. I also use it mobily, which causes slight issues of formatting, input, etc. I've had the idea to relay all the chat from a relay account to my own mobile friendly site.
I haven't started on sending messages yet, although I know how to read messages. How to output them is the issue.
I sniffed outgoing packets on my computer as the chat uses ajax. I was then able to find the following url: http://server05.ips-chat-service.com/get.php?room=xxxx&user=xxxx&access_key=xxxx
The page outputs something similar to this: ~~||~~1419344231,1,kondaxdesign,Could somebody send a quick message for me__C__ please?,,10248~~||~~1419344237,1,tom.bridges,its a iso and a vm what more do we need to know?,,10880~~||~~
That string would output this in chat: http://i.stack.imgur.com/j7CM6.png
I unfortunately don't have much knowledge on regex, or any other function that would split this. Would anybody be able to assist me on getting the 1). Name, 2). Chat Data and 3). Timestamp?
As you can see, the string is something like this: ~~||~~[timestamp],1,[name],[data],,[some integer]~~||~~
Cheers.
After reading through the string output, when somebody leaves chat, this is sent: ~~||~~1419344521,2,wegface,TIMEOUT,2_10828,0~~||~~
The beginning of the log starts with 1,224442 before the first ~~||~~.
You would first explode each record, then use str_getcsv to read the string and parse it as you want. Here is a script that does that, without any formatting on output, and I've named the variables as named in the OP that describes what they are.
I wouldn't use a regular expression to parse the string, as better functionality is available (linked above)
$string = "~~||~~1419344231,1,kondaxdesign,Could somebody send a quick message for me__C__ please?,,10248~~||~~1419344237,1,tom.bridges,its a iso and a vm what more do we need to know?,,10880~~||~~";
//Split so we have each chat record to loop around
foreach( explode("~~||~~", $string) as $segments) {
//Read the CSV properly
$chat = str_getcsv($segments);
if( count($chat) <> 6 ) { continue; } //Skip any that don't have all the data
$timestamp = $chat[0];
$name = $chat[2];
$data = $chat[3];
$some_integer = $chat[5];
echo $name .' said - '. $data .'<br />';
}
PHP Mysql CodeIgniter Converting characters to symbols in very bizarre circumstances
Application Built on CodeIgniter.
Has been running for over a year. No problems.
Client fills in a form about a customer.
A simple trim($_POST['notes']) captures textarea form field text and saves to MySQL
no error reported in PHP or JavaScript
The other day I notice some text the client has entered, has had the brackets used in the text "()" replaced with the equivalent "()
I think... "That's strange... I don't recall any reason why those characters would have been replaced like that.!"
I take a look ... and a day later... here is my madness revealed:
The text in question is verbatim "
Always run credit card on file (we do not charge this customer for pick-up or return)
"
No matter what I did or changed on the code side.. I could not prevent the PHP... OR Javascript... Or MySQL... OR alien beings... - or whoever the heck is doing it - from converting the "()" in the text to "(). And I tried many things like cleaning the string in all ways known to man or god. Capturing the string previous to sending just before saving to the database. And the conversion would always take place just before the save to MySQL. I tried posting in different forms and fields... Same thing every time... could not stop the magic conversion to "().
What in the name of batman is in this magical text that is causing this to happen?? is it magic pixie dust sprinkled on to godaddy server it is running on??? 0_o
.......
Being the genius that I am 0_0 I decide to remove one word from the paragraph at a time.
Magically... as all the creatures of the forest gathered around - as I finally got to the word "file" in the paragraph, and removed it !!! Like magic - the "()" stay as "()" and are NOT converted to "()?!?!???!?!? :\ How come??I simply removed the word "file" from the text... How could this change anything?? What is the word "file" causing to change with how the string is saved or converted??
OK -So I tested this out on any and every form field in the app. Every single time, in any field, if you type the word "file" followed by a "(" it will convert the first "(" to "(; and the very next ")" to ")
So.. if the string is:
"file ( any number of characters or text ) any other text or characters"
On post, it will be converted mysteriously to:
"file ( any number of characters or text ) any other text or characters"
Remove the word "file" from the string, and you get:
"( any number of characters or text ) any other text or characters"
The alien beings return the abducted "()"
Anyone have a clue what the heck could be going on here?
What is causing this?
Is the word "file" a keyword that is tripping some sort of security measures? interpereting it as "file()"???
I dunno :\
It's the strangest thing I ever saw... Except for that time I walked in on Mom and Dad 0_o
Any help would be greatly appreciated, and I will buy you a beer for sure :)
The very large headed, - (way to much power for such tender egos) -, Noo-Noos here at stack have paused this question as "Off topic" LOL... honest to God these guys are so silly.
So - in an effort to placate the stack-gestapo - I will attempt to edit this question so that it is... "on topic"??? 0_o ... anything for you oh so "King" Stack Guys O_O - too bad you would never have the whit to ever notice such a bug... maybe some day. ;)
Sample code:
<textarea name="notes">Always run credit card on file (we do not charge this customer for pick-up or return) blah blah</textarea>
<?php
if(isset($_POST['notes']){
$this->db->where("ID = ".$_POST['ID']);
$this->db->update('OWNER', $_POST['notes']);
}
?>
Resulting MySQL storage:
"Always run credit card on file (we do not charge this customer for pick-up or return) blah blah"
InnoDB - Type text utf8_general_ci
I am not looking for a way to prevent it, or clean it... I am clearly asking "What causes it"
/*
* Sanitize naughty scripting elements
*
* Similar to above, only instead of looking for
* tags it looks for PHP and JavaScript commands
* that are disallowed. Rather than removing the
* code, it simply converts the parenthesis to entities
* rendering the code un-executable.
*
* For example: eval('some code')
* Becomes: eval('some code')
*/
$str = preg_replace('#(alert|cmd|passthru|eval|exec|expression|system|fopen|fsockopen|file|file_get_contents|readfile|unlink)(\s*)\((.*?)\)#si', "\\1\\2(\\3)", $str);
This is the part of XSS Clean. (system/core/Security.php)
If you want the filter to run automatically every time it encounters POST or COOKIE data you can enable it by opening your application/config/config.php file and setting this:
$config['global_xss_filtering'] = TRUE;
https://www.codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/security.html
try something like this
$this->db->set('OWNER', $_POST['notes'],FALSE);
$this->db->where('ID ', $_POST['ID']);
$this->db->update('table_name');
Men I think Is in your server. If Ur using Wamp try to check if you have miss Install some arguments in xhtml. This is my Idea. it's related on my experience in CodeIgniter. hope U will response if you want some advice.
Use utf8 encoding to store these values.
To avoid injections use mysql_real_escape_string() (or prepared statements).
To protect from XSS use htmlspecialchars.
How ever not sure what is the issue in ur case..
Probably try using some other sql keywords in the string and verify the solution.
Try replacing the ( and the ) with ( and ) using str_replace
If you are storing ( and ) in your database then you should try replacing it on output if not try and replace it before input.
I'm not sure if this would work, but you could try inserting a slash in or before the word 'file':
fi\le ( any number of characters or text ) any other text or characters
How to convert something like this
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which i received in HTTP POST to show them properly on HTML web page.
I have no idea what I am looking at but i think i can be converted to something which look in this ☺ format.
How can i do this in PHP
If you send the appropriate character set encoding with your HTTP response, you don't have to do anything to the data, the browser should properly decode it as Japanese text.
Example:
<?php
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');
$var = "\xe6\xa6\x82\xe8\xa6\x81\n\xe3\x83\xbb\xe3\x82\xb0\xe3\x83\xaa\xe3\x83\xbc\xe3\x81\xae\xe3\x82\xa8\xe3\x83\xb3\xe3\x82\xb8\xe3\x83\x8b\xe3\x82\xa2\xe3\x81\xab\xe5\xbf\x9c\xe5\x8b\x9f\xe3\x81\x97\xe3\x81\xa6\xe3\x81\xbf\xe3\x81\x9f\xe3\x81\x84\xe3\x81\x8c\xe3\x80\x81\xe5\xbf\x9c\xe5\x8b\x9f\xe5\x89\x8d\xe3\x81\xab\xe8\x87\xaa\xe5\x88\x86\xe3\x81\xae\xe5\xae\x9f\xe5\x8a\x9b\xe3\x82\x92\xe8\xa9\xa6\xe3\x81\x97\xe3\x81\xa6\xe3\x81\xbf\xe3\x81\x9f\xe3\x81\x84\xe3\x80\x82\n\xe3\x83\xbb\xe5\x9c\xb0\xe6\x96\xb9\xe3\x81\xab\xe4\xbd\x8f\xe3\x82\x93\xe3\x81\xa7\xe3\x81\x84\xe3\x82\x8b\xe3\x81\xae\xe3\x81\xa7\xe9\x9d\xa2\xe6\x8e\xa5\xe5\x9b\x9e\xe6\x95\xb0\xe3\x81\x8c\xe5\xb0\x91\xe3\x81\xaa\xe3\x81\x84\xe6\x96\xb9\xe3\x81\x8c\xe3\x81\x82\xe3\x82\x8a\xe3\x81\x8c\xe3\x81\x9f\xe3\x81\x84\xe3\x80\x82\n\xe3\x83\xbb\xe9\x9d\xa2\xe6\x8e\xa5\xe3\x81\xaf\xe8\x8b\xa6\xe6\x89\x8b\xe3\x81\xa0\xe3\x81\x8c\xe3\x83\x97\xe3\x83\xad\xe3\x82\xb0\xe3\x83\xa9\xe3\x83\x9f\xe3\x83\xb3\xe3\x82\xb0\xe3\x81\xab\xe3\x81\xaf\xe8\x87\xaa\xe4\xbf\xa1\xe3\x81\x8c\xe3\x81\x82\xe3\x82\x8b\xe3\x80\x82\xe3\x81\xaf\xe3\x80\x81\xe3\x81\x93\xe3\x81\xae\xe3\x82\x88\xe3\x81\x86\xe3\x81\xaa\xe6\x96\xb9\xe3\x80\x85\xe3\x81\xae\xe3\x81\x94\xe8\xa6\x81\xe6\x9c\x9b\xe3\x81\xab\xe3\x81\x8a\xe5\xbf\x9c\xe3\x81\x88\xe3\x81\x99\xe3\x82\x8b\xe3\x81\x9f\xe3\x82\x81\xe3\x81\xab\xe4\xbd\x9c\xe3\x82\x89\xe3\x82\x8c\xe3\x81\x9f\xe6\x96\xb0\xe3\x81\x97\xe3\x81\x84\xe6\x8e\xa1\xe7\x94\xa8\xe3\x83\x97\xe3\x83\xad\xe3\x82\xb0\xe3\x83\xa9\xe3\x83\xa0\xe3\x81\xa7\xe3\x81\x99\xe3\x80\x82\n\xe3\x83\x97\xe3\x83\xad\xe3\x82\xb0\xe3\x83\xa9\xe3\x83\x9f\xe3\x83\xb3\xe3\x82\xb0\xe3\x82\xb9\xe3\x82\xad\xe3\x83\xab\xe3\x82\x92\xe8\xa9\x95\xe4\xbe\xa1\xe3\x81\x99\xe3\x82\x8b\xef\xbc\x91\xe6\xac\xa1\xe9\x9d\xa2\xe6\x8e\xa5\xe3\x82\x92\xe3\x83\x91\xe3\x82\xb9\xe3\x81\xa7\xe3\x81\x8d\xe3\x81\xbe\xe3\x81\x99\xe3\x81\xae\xe3\x81\xa7\xe5\x8a\xb9\xe7\x8e\x87\xe7\x9a\x84\xe3\x81\xaa\xe8\xbb\xa2\xe8\x81\xb7\xe6\xb4\xbb\xe5\x8b\x95\xe3\x82\x92\xe8\xa1\x8c\xe3\x81\xa3\xe3\x81\xa6\xe9\xa0\x82\xe3\x81\x91\xe3\x81\xbe\xe3\x81\x99\xe3\x80\x82\n\xe3\x82\x82\xe3\x81\xa1\xe3\x82\x8d\xe3\x82\x93\xe5\xad\xa6\xe7\x94\x9f\xe3\x81\xae\xe7\x9a\x86\xe3\x81\x95\xe3\x82\x93\xe3\x81\xae\xe3\x83\x81\xe3\x83\xa3\xe3\x83\xac\xe3\x83\xb3\xe3\x82\xb8\xe3\x82\x82\xe3\x81\x8a\xe5\xbe\x85\xe3\x81\xa1\xe3\x81\x97\xe3\x81\xa6\xe3\x81\x8a\xe3\x82\x8a\xe3\x81\xbe\xe3\x81\x99\xe3\x80\x82";
echo $var;
Since we send a header saying that the character encoding is UTF-8, the browser knows to decode it as such. You could also use a meta-tag to specify the charset. If the browser was set to auto-detect the code, neither option is necessary, but you can't rely on that.
It looks like Japan
php > echo "\xe6\xa6\x82\xe8\xa6\x81\n\xe3\x83\xbb\xe3\x82\xb0\xe3\x83\xaa\xe3\x83\xbc\xe3\x81\xae\xe3\x82\xa8\xe3\x83\xb3\xe3\x82\xb8\xe3\x83\x8b\xe3\x82\xa2\xe3\x81\xab\xe5\xbf\x9c\xe5\x8b\x9f\xe3\x81\x97\xe3\x81\xa6\xe3\x81\xbf\xe3\x81\x9f\xe3\x81\x84\xe3\x81\x8c\xe3\x80\x81\xe5\xbf\x9c\xe5\x8b\x9f\xe5\x89\x8d\xe3\x81\xab\xe8\x87\xaa\xe5\x88\x86\xe3\x81\xae\xe5\xae\x9f\xe5\x8a\x9b\xe3\x82\x92\xe8\xa9\xa6\xe3\x81\x97\xe3\x81\xa6\xe3\x81\xbf\xe3\x81\x9f\xe3\x81\x84\xe3\x80\x82\n\xe3\x83\xbb\xe5\x9c\xb0\xe6\x96\xb9\xe3\x81\xab\xe4\xbd\x8f\xe3\x82\x93\xe3\x81\xa7\xe3\x81\x84\xe3\x82\x8b\xe3\x81\xae\xe3\x81\xa7\xe9\x9d\xa2\xe6\x8e\xa5\xe5\x9b\x9e\xe6\x95\xb0\xe3\x81\x8c\xe5\xb0\x91\xe3\x81\xaa\xe3\x81\x84\xe6\x96\xb9\xe3\x81\x8c\xe3\x81\x82\xe3\x82\x8a\xe3\x81\x8c\xe3\x81\x9f\xe3\x81\x84\xe3\x80\x82\n\xe3\x83\xbb\xe9\x9d\xa2\xe6\x8e\xa5\xe3\x81\xaf\xe8\x8b\xa6\xe6\x89\x8b\xe3\x81\xa0\xe3\x81\x8c\xe3\x83\x97\xe3\x83\xad\xe3\x82\xb0\xe3\x83\xa9\xe3\x83\x9f\xe3\x83\xb3\xe3\x82\xb0\xe3\x81\xab\xe3\x81\xaf\xe8\x87\xaa\xe4\xbf\xa1\xe3\x81\x8c\xe3\x81\x82\xe3\x82\x8b\xe3\x80\x82\xe3\x81\xaf\xe3\x80\x81\xe3\x81\x93\xe3\x81\xae\xe3\x82\x88\xe3\x81\x86\xe3\x81\xaa\xe6\x96\xb9\xe3\x80\x85\xe3\x81\xae\xe3\x81\x94\xe8\xa6\x81\xe6\x9c\x9b\xe3\x81\xab\xe3\x81\x8a\xe5\xbf\x9c\xe3\x81\x88\xe3\x81\x99\xe3\x82\x8b\xe3\x81\x9f\xe3\x82\x81\xe3\x81\xab\xe4\xbd\x9c\xe3\x82\x89\xe3\x82\x8c\xe3\x81\x9f\xe6\x96\xb0\xe3\x81\x97\xe3\x81\x84\xe6\x8e\xa1\xe7\x94\xa8\xe3\x83\x97\xe3\x83\xad\xe3\x82\xb0\xe3\x83\xa9\xe3\x83\xa0\xe3\x81\xa7\xe3\x81\x99\xe3\x80\x82\n\xe3\x83\x97\xe3\x83\xad\xe3\x82\xb0\xe3\x83\xa9\xe3\x83\x9f\xe3\x83\xb3\xe3\x82\xb0\xe3\x82\xb9\xe3\x82\xad\xe3\x83\xab\xe3\x82\x92\xe8\xa9\x95\xe4\xbe\xa1\xe3\x81\x99\xe3\x82\x8b\xef\xbc\x91\xe6\xac\xa1\xe9\x9d\xa2\xe6\x8e\xa5\xe3\x82\x92\xe3\x83\x91\xe3\x82\xb9\xe3\x81\xa7\xe3\x81\x8d\xe3\x81\xbe\xe3\x81\x99\xe3\x81\xae\xe3\x81\xa7\xe5\x8a\xb9\xe7\x8e\x87\xe7\x9a\x84\xe3\x81\xaa\xe8\xbb\xa2\xe8\x81\xb7\xe6\xb4\xbb\xe5\x8b\x95\xe3\x82\x92\xe8\xa1\x8c\xe3\x81\xa3\xe3\x81\xa6\xe9\xa0\x82\xe3\x81\x91\xe3\x81\xbe\xe3\x81\x99\xe3\x80\x82\n\xe3\x82\x82\xe3\x81\xa1\xe3\x82\x8d\xe3\x82\x93\xe5\xad\xa6\xe7\x94\x9f\xe3\x81\xae\xe7\x9a\x86\xe3\x81\x95\xe3\x82\x93\xe3\x81\xae\xe3\x83\x81\xe3\x83\xa3\xe3\x83\xac\xe3\x83\xb3\xe3\x82\xb8\xe3\x82\x82\xe3\x81\x8a\xe5\xbe\x85\xe3\x81\xa1\xe3\x81\x97\xe3\x81\xa6\xe3\x81\x8a\xe3\x82\x8a\xe3\x81\xbe\xe3\x81\x99\xe3\x80\x82";
概要
・グリーのエンジニアに応募してみたいが、応募前に自分の実力を試してみたい。
・地方に住んでいるので面接回数が少ない方がありがたい。
・面接は苦手だがプログラミングには自信がある。は、このような方々のご要望にお応えするために作られた新しい採用プログラムです。
プログラミングスキルを評価する１次面接をパスできますので効率的な転職活動を行って頂けます。
もちろん学生の皆さんのチャレンジもお待ちしております。
The google translate
Summary
-But I would like to apply for the engineers of the glee, want to try their strength before application.
The smaller the number of times, because they appreciate the interview live in rural areas.
• The programming is confident but not good interview. Is a new adoption program was created to meet the needs of people like this.
You can Tenshoku efficient activities so you can pass the next one interview to evaluate the programming.
We look forward to challenge of course students
Maybe I'm wrong ;)
I have actually no real clue why you get this as POST, but I assume that
\x82
(and the like) stands for a hexa-decimal number. To convert a whole string (ensure it's that format):
$string = eval('return "' . $thatExactInputAsGiven . '";');
$string does now contain the byte-sequence that this submission represents. However I can not tell you which encoding it is in, but probably this one-line above helps you for testing.
If you fear the eval, mind the error handling:
$string = implode('', array_map(function($v){
$r = sscanf($v, '\x%x', $ord);
if (!$r) throw new Exception('Invalid input.');
return chr($ord);
}, str_split($thatExactInputAsGiven, 4)));
I'm looking for a good example of using Regular Expressions in PHP to "reverse engineer" a form letter (with a known format, of course) that has been pasted into a multiline textbox and sent to a script for processing.
So, for example, let's assume this is the original plain-text input (taken from a USDA press release):
WASHINGTON, April 5, 2010 - North
American Bison Co-Op, a New Rockford,
N.D., establishment is recalling
approximately 25,000 pounds of whole
beef heads containing tongues that may
not have had the tonsils completely
removed, which is not compliant with
regulations that require the removal
of tonsils from cattle of all ages,
the U.S. Department of Agriculture's
Food Safety and Inspection Service
(FSIS) announced today.
For clarity, the fields that are variables are highlighted below:
[pr_city=]WASHINGTON, [pr_date=]April 5, 2010 - [corp_name=]North
American Bison Co-Op, a [corp_city=]New Rockford,
[corp_state=]N.D., establishment is recalling
approximately [amount=]25,000 pounds of [product=]whole
beef heads containing tongues that may
not have had the tonsils completely
removed, which is not compliant with
regulations that require [reason=]the removal
of tonsils from cattle of all ages,
the U.S. Department of Agriculture's
Food Safety and Inspection Service
(FSIS) announced today.
How could I efficiently extract the contents of the
pr_city
pr_date
corp_name
corp_city
corp_state
amount
product
reason
fields from my example?
Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
Well, a regex that works on your example could look like this (line breaks introduced to keep this beast legible, need to be removed prior to use):
/^(?P<pr_city>[^,]+), (?P<pr_date>[^-]+) - (?P<corp_name>.*?), a
(?P<corp_city>[^,]+), (?P<corp_state>[^,]+), establishment is
recalling approximately (?P<amount>.*?) of (?P<product>.*?),
which is not compliant with regulations that require (?P<reason>.*?),
the U\.S\. Department of Agriculture\'s Food Safety and Inspection
Service \(FSIS\) announced today\.$/
So, in PHP you could do
if (preg_match('/^(?P<pr_city>[^,]+), (?P<pr_date>[^-]+) - (?P<corp_name>.*?), a (?P<corp_city>[^,]+), (?P<corp_state>[^,]+), establishment is recalling approximately (?P<amount>.*?) of (?P<product>.*?), which is not compliant with regulations that require (?P<reason>.*?), the U\.S\. Department of Agriculture\'s Food Safety and Inspection Service \(FSIS\) announced today\.$/', $subject, $regs)) {
$prcity = $regs['pr_city'];
$prdate = $regs['pr_date'];
... etc.
} else {
$result = "";
}
This assumes a couple of things, for instance that there are no line breaks, and that the input is the entire string (and not a larger string from which this part has to be extracted from). I've tried to make assumptions about legal values that make some sense, but there is the very real chance that other inputs could break this. So some more test cases are probably needed.
If the surrounding text is constant, then something like this partial regex could do the trick:
preg_match('/^(.*?), (.*?)- (.*?), a (.*?), (.*?), establishment is recalling approximately (.*?), which is not compliant with regulations that require (.*?), the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today./', $text, $matches);
$matches[1] = 'WASHINGTON';
$matches[2] = 'April 5, 2010';
$matches[3] = ... etc...
If the surrounding text changes, then you're going to end up with a ton of false matches, no matches, etc... Essentially you'd need an AI to parse/understand PR releases.
Edit: Please disregard this crazy answer, as the other two are better. I should probably delete it, but I'm keeping it up for reference.
I have a crazy idea that just might work: build an XML string from the input by adding markups, then parse it. It might look something like this (completely untested) code:
preg_replace('([^,]*), ([^-]*)- ...etc...', '<pr_city>\1</pr_city><pr_date>\2</pr_date> ...etc...');
Parsing the XML afterwards is a needlessly complicated process that is best left to the PHP documentation: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.xml-parse.php .
You could also consider converting it to JSON with this method, then using json_decode() to parse it. In any case, you have to think about what happens when " marks and > symbols appear in the input.
It might be easier to just match and remove one piece of the text at a time.