PHP - Splitting string lines up into two variables - php

Question

Not sure how I would do this but if someone could point me in the right track that'll be great, basically I've got a lone line of text in a variable which looks like this:
Lambo 1; Trabant 2; Car 3;
Then I want to split "Lambo" to it's own variable then "1" to it's own variable, and repeat for the others. How would I go and do this?
I know about explode() but not sure how I would do it to split the variable up twice etc.
As requested in the comments my desired output would be like this:
$Item = "Lambo"
$Quantity = 1
Then echo them out and go back to top of loop for example and do the same for the Trabant and Car

Answer 1

<?php
$in = "Lambo 1; Trabant 2; Car 3;";
foreach (explode(";", $in) as $element) {
$element = trim($element);
if (strpos($element, " ") !== false ) {
list($car, $number) = explode(" ", $element);
echo "car: $car, number: $number";
}
}
You can use explode to split the input on each ;, loop over the results and then split over each .

Answer 2

You can use preg_split and iterate over the array by moving twice.
$output = preg_split("/ (;|vs) /", $input);

Answer 3

You could use preg_match_all for getting those parts:
$line = "Lambo 1; Trabant 2; Car 3;";
preg_match_all("/[^ ;]+/", $line, $matches);
$matches = $matches[0];
With that sample data, the $matches array will look like this:
Array ( "Lambo", "1", "Trabant", "2", "Car", "3" )

Answer 4

$new_data="Lambo 1;Trabant 2;Car 3;" ;
$new_array=explode(";", $new_data);
foreach ($new_array as $key ) {
# code...
$final_data=explode(" ", $key);
if(isset($final_data[0])){ echo "<pre>".$final_data[0]."</pre>";}
if(isset($final_data[1])){echo "<pre>".$final_data[1]."</pre>";}
}

Answer 5

This places each word and number in a new key of the array if you need to acess them seperatly.
preg_match_all("/(\w+) (\d+);/", $input_lines, $output_array);
Click preg_match_all
http://www.phpliveregex.com/p/fM8

Answer 6

Use a global regular expression match:
<?php
$subject = 'Lambo 1; Trabant 2; Car 3;';
$pattern = '/((\w+)\s+(\d+);\s?)+/Uu';
preg_match_all($pattern, $subject, $tokens);
var_dump($tokens);
The output you get is:
array(4) {
[0] =>
array(3) {
[0] =>
string(8) "Lambo 1;"
[1] =>
string(10) "Trabant 2;"
[2] =>
string(6) "Car 3;"
}
[1] =>
array(3) {
[0] =>
string(8) "Lambo 1;"
[1] =>
string(10) "Trabant 2;"
[2] =>
string(6) "Car 3;"
}
[2] =>
array(3) {
[0] =>
string(5) "Lambo"
[1] =>
string(7) "Trabant"
[2] =>
string(3) "Car"
}
[3] =>
array(3) {
[0] =>
string(1) "1"
[1] =>
string(1) "2"
[2] =>
string(1) "3"
}
}
In there the elements 2 and 3 hold exactly the tokens you are looking for.