Parse nightmare

[Michael Willcocks]

I have a 1200 line text file with information that I need in the following
format.
FIGURE>SAMEFIGU RE=NUMBER>SAMEN UMBER=CHANNELNA ME">SAMECHANNEL NAME<DELETE

I want to break it down into this format.
$figure > $figure = $number > $number = $channel ">
$channel < the rest can be deleted
my way (not a lot of experience with this sort of problem..
don't laugh)

explode (">", $exFigure);
$figure = $exFigure[0];

explode ("=", $number);
$figure = $exFigure[1];
// then chop out after the >
And so on..


Would there be a better way I could learn...?

Thanks alot in advance

Mike.

[Dmitry Ruban]

Re: Parse nightmare

Hello Mike,

Try to use regular expressions.
For exmaple:
pref_match ( "/([^>]+)>([^=]+)=(\d+)>(\d+)= ([^\"]+)\"/", $exFigure,
$matches );
$matches[1] = FIGURE
$matches[2] = SAMEFIGURE
$matches[3] = NUMBER
$matches[4] = SAMENUMBER
$matches[5] = CHANNELNAME

Excuse my bad pattern, im hurry :)

Dima
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> I have a 1200 line text file with information that I need in the following
> format.
> FIGURE>SAMEFIGU RE=NUMBER>SAMEN UMBER=CHANNELNA ME">SAMECHANNEL NAME<DELETE
>
> I want to break it down into this format.
> $figure > $figure = $number > $number = $channel ">
> $channel < the rest can be deleted
> my way (not a lot of experience with this sort of problem..
> don't laugh)
>
> explode (">", $exFigure);
> $figure = $exFigure[0];
>
> explode ("=", $number);
> $figure = $exFigure[1];
> // then chop out after the >
> And so on..
>
>
> Would there be a better way I could learn...?
>
> Thanks alot in advance
>
> Mike.
>
>[/color]

[Andy Hassall]

Re: Parse nightmare

On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 16:45:59 -0700, "Michael Willcocks"
<michael@metrog roup.com.au> wrote:
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>I have a 1200 line text file with information that I need in the following
>format.
>FIGURE>SAMEFIG URE=NUMBER>SAME NUMBER=CHANNELN AME">SAMECHANNE LNAME<DELETE
>
>I want to break it down into this format.
>$figure > $figure = $number > $number = $channel ">
>$channel < the rest can be deleted
>my way (not a lot of experience with this sort of problem..
> don't laugh)
>
>explode (">", $exFigure);
>$figure = $exFigure[0];
>
>explode ("=", $number);
>$figure = $exFigure[1];
>// then chop out after the >
>And so on..
>
>Would there be a better way I could learn...?[/color]

Using explode here sounds quite reasonable; so long as the delimiter is never
part of the data, there's no real need to use anything more complicated.

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[Michael Willcocks]

Re: Parse nightmare

Thank you both for your input
Thanks alot seems to be working.
I have never used the pattern method because any time I have seen it in
use... It looks a little scary.

"Andy Hassall" <andy@andyh.co. uk> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 16:45:59 -0700, "Michael Willcocks"
> <michael@metrog roup.com.au> wrote:
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> >I have a 1200 line text file with information that I need in the[/color][/color]
following[color=blue][color=green]
> >format.
> >FIGURE>SAMEFIG URE=NUMBER>SAME NUMBER=CHANNELN AME">SAMECHANNE LNAME<DELETE
> >
> >I want to break it down into this format.
> >$figure > $figure = $number > $number = $channel ">
> >$channel < the rest can be deleted
> >my way (not a lot of experience with this sort of problem..
> > don't laugh)
> >
> >explode (">", $exFigure);
> >$figure = $exFigure[0];
> >
> >explode ("=", $number);
> >$figure = $exFigure[1];
> >// then chop out after the >
> >And so on..
> >
> >Would there be a better way I could learn...?[/color]
>
> Using explode here sounds quite reasonable; so long as the delimiter is[/color]
never[color=blue]
> part of the data, there's no real need to use anything more complicated.
>
> --
> Andy Hassall (andy@andyh.co. uk) icq(5747695) (http://www.andyh.co.uk)
> Space: disk usage analysis tool (http://www.andyhsoftware.co.uk/space)[/color]