Reformat a text file in PHP - php

Question

I want to reformat a text file from this:
• Name - 5 September 12:19
- Message
To this:
Name (5 September, 12:19)
Message
Where the names are in bold text and it may be some indications that steps forward in the messages (-- -- -- --). These indications will be replaces with a <hr>. You can see the whole text file here.
I have came up with this:
$url = 'http://erik-edgren.nu/files/history/apg29/jesus-september-2014.txt';
$lines = file($url, FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES);
foreach($lines AS $line) {
$info = explode(' - ', $line);
if(strlen($info[0]) > '• ') {
echo '<b>'.str_replace('• ', '', $info[0]).'</b>';
}
echo !isset($info[1]) ? '' : ' ('.$info[1].')';
echo '<br>';
}
But I don't know how I can reformat the document as I want in the best way possible. Any solution on how I can accomplish this?

Answer 1

This is the basic idea of what I would do. You probably need to replace '•' with unicode for that character. This script does not probably work, but it has the general idea of what I would do.
<?php
$url = 'http://erik-edgren.nu/files/history/apg29/jesus-september-2014.txt';
$thedata=file_get_contents($url);
$lines=explode(PHP_EOL,$thedata);
$line1='';
foreach($lines as $a)
{
if(substr($a,2,2)=='• ')
{
$data=explode(' ',$a);
$line1=$data[1] . ' (' . $data[3] . ' ' . $data[4] . ', ' . $data[5] . ')'.PHP_EOL;
}
if(substr($a,2,2)=='- ')
{
echo $line1 . substr($a,2) . PHP_EOL;
}
}
?>