I have some testcases/strings in this format:
o201_01_01a_Testing_to_see_If_this_testcases_passes:without_data
o201_01_01b_Testing_to_see_If_this_testcases_passes:data
rx01_01_03d_Testing_the_reconfiguration/Retest:
Actually this testcase name consists of the actual name and the description.
So, I want to split them like this :
o201_01_01a Testing_to_see_If_this_testcases_passes:without_data
o201_01_01b Testing_to_see_If_this_testcases_passes:data
rx01_01_03d Testing_the_reconfiguration/Retest:
I am unable to figure out the exact way to do this in explode in php
Can anyone help please?
Thanks.
If the first part has always the same length, why don't you use substr, e.g.
$string = "o201_01_01a_Testing_to_see_If_this_testcases_passes:without_data";
$first_part = substr($string, 0, 11); // o201_01_01a
$second_part = substr($string, 12); // Testing_to_see_If_this_testcases_passes:without_data
$results = preg_split("/([a-z0-9]+_[0-9]+_[0-9]+[a-z])(.*)/", $input);
That should give you an array of results, provided I got the regular expression correct.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-split.php
Looking at the pattern, it appears that you need to use regular expressions. If this is how they all are, you can cut off the beginning by looking for an upper case character. The code might look like this:
$matches = array()
preg_match('/^[^A-Z]*?/', $string, $matches);
$matches = substr($matches[0], 0, count($matches[0])-1);
Would put the first little part into $matches. Working on second part...
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So I have a string that is retrieved from my database. The returned value could be laid out like
VD-6||CL-4
or just
VD-6
I need the value after the hyphen. so for instance if it returned
VD-12||CL-5
I need to extract "12" from that string.
Any help is appreciated.
You could do this using Regular Expressions, or just the old fashion splitting method.
Let me give you an example on the second one:
$string = 'VD-12||CL-5';
$split = explode('-', $string);
$yourNumber = intval($split[1]); // $yourNumber = 12
But.... I would prefer fixing this with regular expressions. But it's really hard to give a concrete example of a regular expression without exactly knowing the requirements for the regex and the input.
Same goes for my code example above, by the way. But I just went with the information you provided.
// get 12 out of VD-12||CL-5
// or get 6 out of VD-6
$string = "VD-12||CL-5";
//$string = "VD-6";
$strpos = strpos($string, '|');
if($strpos){
echo substr($string, strpos($string, '-') +1, $strpos-3);
}else{
echo substr($string, strpos($string, '-') +1);
}
But a bit mor information could be useful
demo
I have a string which looks like this:
21/04/2014,16:57:28,19,0,2021/04/2014,16:57:48,19,0,20
I would like to split it so that I get something like the following:
21/04/2014,16:57:28,19,0,20
21/04/2014,16:57:48,19,0,20
I have tried using php's substr which I thought was giving results but it duplicated this '21/04/2014,16:57:48,19,0,20' twice.
$data3 = array(substr($data1, -27), substr($data1, 27));
Even tried a regex with no luck.
If length of parts you want to get is constant you can use str_split function with second parameter.
$data = str_split($string, 27);
Elon Than's answer is the perfect solution if, as he states, the length is constant. However, I just thought I'd add this solution in case (for example) the '19' could also be '3' (or whatever):
preg_match_all("/\d{2}\/\d{2}\/\d{4}\,\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2},\d{1,2},\d{1},\d{2}/", $string, $matches);
var_dump($matches[0]);
Notice the \d{1,2} will include any number that is 1 or 2 digits.
$data3 = array(substr($data1, 0, 27), substr($data1, 27));
I have a string that looks something like this:
abc-def-ghi-jkl-mno-pqr-stu-vwx-yz I'd like to get the content BEFORE the 4th dash, so effectively, I'd like to get abc-def-ghi-jkl assigned to a new string, then I'd like to get mno assigned to a different string.
How could I go about doing this? I tried using explode but that changed it to an array and I didn't want to do it that way.
Try this:
$n = 4; //nth dash
$str = 'abc-def-ghi-jkl-mno-pqr-stu-vwx-yz';
$pieces = explode('-', $str);
$part1 = implode('-', array_slice($pieces, 0, $n));
$part2 = $pieces[$n];
echo $part1; //abc-def-ghi-jkl
echo $part2; //mno
See demo
http://php.net/manual/en/function.array-slice.php
http://php.net/manual/en/function.explode.php
http://php.net/manual/en/function.implode.php
Can you add your source code? I done this one before but I cant remember the exact source code I used. But I am pretty sure I used explode and you can't avoid using array.
EDIT: Mark M answer is right.
you could try using substr as another possible solution
http://php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php
If I see where you are trying to get with this you could also go onto substr_replace
I guess an alternative to explode would be to find the position of the 4th - in the string and then get a substring from the start of the string up to that character.
You can find the position using a loop with the method explained at find the second occurrence of a char in a string php and then use substr(string,0,pos) to get the substring.
$string = "abc-def-ghi-jkl-mno-pqr-stu-vwx-yz";
$pos = -1;
for($i=0;$i<4;$i++)
$pos = strpos($string, '-', $pos+1);
echo substr($string, 0, $pos);
Code isn't tested but the process is easy to understand. You start at the first character (0), find a - and on the next loop you start at that position +1. The loop repeats it for a set number of times and then you get the substring from the start to that last - you found.
I'm trying to find the best way to grab the dynamic substring, but replace all of the content after.
This is what I'm trying to achieve:
{table_telecommunications}
The substring {table_ is always the same, the only that varies is telecommunications}.
I want to grab the word telecommunications so I can do a search on a MySQL table and then replace {table_telecommunications} with the content returned.
I thought of making a strpos and then explode and so on.
But I guess it would be easier with regex, but I have no skills on creating regex.
Could you possibly give me the best way to do this?
Edit: I'm saying possibly regex is the best way because I need to find strings that are in this format, but the second part is variable, just like {table_*}
Use Regex.
<?php
$string = "{table_telecommunications} blabla blabla {table_block}";
preg_match_all("/\{table_(.+?)\}/is", $string, $matches);
$substrings = $matches[1];
print_r($substrings);
?>
if (preg_match('#table_([^}]+)}#', '{table_telecommunications}', $matches)){
echo $matches[1];
}
That's a regex solution. You can do the same with explode:
$parts = explode('table_', '{table_telecommunications}');
echo substr($parts[1], 0, -1);
$input = '{table_telecommunications}';
$table_name = trim(implode('_', array_shift(explode($input, '_'))), '}');
Should be fast, no regex required.
I know it may sound as a common question but I have difficulty understanding this process.
So I have this string:
http://domain.com/campaign/tgadv?redirect
And I need to get only the word "tgadv". But I don't know that the word is "tgadv", it could be whatever.
Also the url itself may change and become:
http://domain.com/campaign/tgadv
or
http://domain.com/campaign/tgadv/
So what I need is to create a function that will get whatever word is after campaign and before any other particular character. That's the logic..
The only certain thing is that the word will come after the word campaign/ and that any other character that will be after the word we are searching is a special one ( i.e. / or ? )
I tried understanding preg_match but really cannot get any good result from it..
Any help would be highly appreciated!
I would not use a regex for that. I would use parse_url and basename:
$bits = parse_url('http://domain.com/campaign/tgadv?redirect');
$filename = basename($bits['path']);
echo $filename;
However, if want a regex solution, use something like this:
$pattern = '~(.*)/(.*)(\?.*)~';
preg_match($pattern, 'http://domain.com/campaign/tgadv?redirect', $matches);
$filename = $matches[2];
echo $filename;
Actually, preg_match sounds like the perfect solution to this problem. I assume you are having problems with the regex?
Try something like this:
<?php
$url = "http://domain.com/campaign/tgadv/";
$pattern = "#campaign/([^/\?]+)#";
preg_match($pattern, $url, $matches);
// $matches[1] will contain tgadv.
$path = "http://domain.com/campaign/tgadv?redirect";
$url_parts = parse_url($path);
$tgadv = strrchr($url_parts['path'], '/');
You don't really need a regex to accomplish this. You can do it using stripos() and substr().
For example:
$str = '....Your string...';
$offset = stripos($str, 'campaign/');
if ( $offset === false ){
//error, end of h4 tag wasn't found
}
$offset += strlen('campaign/');
$newStr = substr($str, $offset);
At this point $newStr will have all the text after 'campaign/'.
You then just need to use a similar process to find the special character position and use substr() to strip the string you want out.
You can also just use the good old string functions in this case, no need to involve regexps.
First find the string /campaign/, then take the substring with everything after it (tgadv/asd/whatever/?redirect), then find the next / or ? after the start of the string, and everything in between will be what you need (tgadv).