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PHP - Break Up A String By Two Specific Characters In Differing Locations
This is probably a simple one. I just couldn't find a tutorial to the specific thing I'm trying.
I have a string that looks like: "(abbreviated name with.) second abbrev. name." I'm trying to find a way to break this apart so I can have: $var1 = "abbreviated name with." $var2 = "second abbrev. name." I've looked at substr and a couple others and I'm not sure quite how to do this, because the ')' could be in a differing location. Similar TutorialsI have a form with some dropdownlist that get populated dynamically(depends on what the user chooses) with jquery and an xml file. In the form I have a button that takes the info and populates another form with the values of the ddl. I have coded script which populates the second form with jquery and the name of each input get dynamically added like so: Code: [Select] <input type="text" value="'+model+'" name="Model_'+model+'" id="'+model+'" readonly size="'+model.length+'" /> <input type="text" value="'+model+'" name="Model'+model+'" id="'+model+'" readonly size="'+model.length+'" />> <input type="text" value="'+color+'" name="Color'+color+'" id="'+color+'" readonly size="'+color.length+'" /> <input type="text" value="'+part+'" name="Part'+part+'" id="'+part+'" readonly size="'+part.length+'" /> <input type="text" value="$'+price+'" name="Price'+price+'" id="'+price+'" readonly size="'+price.length+'" /> <input type="text" value="'+qty+'" name="Quantity'+qty+'" id="'+qty+'" readonly size="'+qty.length+'" /> <input type="text" value="'+total+'" name="Total'+total+'" id="'+total+'" readonly size="'+total.length+'" /> What I want to do is grab the name of the element and remove the underscore and everything else form rileft to right so I am left with just the word before the underscore. I tried using substr($key,0,-28) but that wont work since everything after the underscore will have a different length. I was wondering if there is a way i can keep everything before the underscore and remove the underscore and everything after that. Thanks in advance for any input I get. Hiya peeps, I am using preg_match to validate URLS; preg_match("/(((https?|ftp|gopher):\/\/|(mailto|file|news):)[^' <>\"]+|(www|web|w3).[-a-z0-9.]+)[^' .,;<>\":]/i", $this->_searchString) I works great, the only issue I have is I am using it in an if statment, and what I need to do is something like this. if(preg_match("/(((https?|ftp|gopher):\/\/|(mailto|file|news):)[^' <>\"]+|(www|web|w3).[-a-z0-9.]+)[^' .,;<>\":]/i", $this->_searchString)) { CHECK IF $this->_searchString has http:// at the start of it or if it has a / at the end and remove them if it does. I need $this->_searchString to end up with only www.SITE.co.uk before I can input it into the relevant function. } else { } Many thanks, James. Hey... I'm trying to echo the title of the news in the right column but I just want to display maximum of 25 characters how can I do it? thanks Hi all, I have an array of data. I am looping through this data to generate a CSV file. However, if there are commas in any of the elements then this will throw out the structure of the CSV file. My question is, how do I loop through the array before I use it to strip out any commas and replace with a space? Thanks for your help. I'm trying to figure out how I can break a string down if the strings length is longer then lets say 140 characters including white space. At first I was figuring maybe maybe I could do something with explode or implode after I get a get my strings length but the string in question has no static values to them that would let me break it apart or put it back together. Now In most cases I would use substr() to return my 140 characters, however I need to take 140+ and make an array of the extra so I can run a for each on it. I am using this for an SMS app I am helping develop. I know I can limit my the output to only 140, just based on the notion that a single SMS is capped at 140-160 on most carriers. Unfortunately for me thats not the case so I need to break this apart and I am stumped, anyone got any ideas? How do i get the first part of the string, all the way up until the string hits a line break? Code: [Select] <?php $string = "The quick red fox\n jumped over the brown\n lazy dog."; function first_of_string($str) { //php magic return $first_of_string; } echo first_of_string($string); //would produce "The quick red fox" ?> so i have this string that i want to search on the database My database has 3 parts city, state, country and i have a string that is say "new york city, ny, united states" and i want to be able to be able to look into the database but search those three sections so for example "New York City" i would like to search under city "NY" i want it to search under state and "United States" i want to search under country so basically how can i split the string into those three sections?? hope someone can help me with this Hello guys i am trying to figure out how to fwrite a string for example "Recommended Settings for Service Pack" under "Current Settings for Service Pack: 5.1.2600ServicePack3Build2600". I figure i cant use line number as an argument because the file report may be dynamic so i will need to use Current Settings as an argument. Please guide me if you have any ideas..thanks:) ! auditreport table ServicePackSetting Service Pack Requirement: Fail Current Settings for Service Pack: 5.1.2600ServicePack3Build2600 MajorAuditandAccountPolicies Maximum Password Age Requirement: Fail Current Settings for Maximum Password Age Requirement: 42 Minimum Password Length: Fail Current Settings for Minimum Password Length Requirement: 0 The table in the script has a set max-width. How can now a too long continuous text string as in "blaaaaaaaa", which also does not contain a space or dash, be broken, so the table does not become stretched to far? Which function is used for this? Hello, I have this XML file I am parsing and I have hit a small formatting issue that I can't seem to get around.
Here is what the the output of the RSS looks like.
<description><![CDATA[<div style='text-align:left;'>Exit ramp closed. <br/><b>Current Status:</b> Open<br/><b>Affected Lanes:</b> Exit Ramp<br/><b>Dates:</b> Wednesday, May 28 - Thursday, May 29<br/><b>Days Closed:</b> <font color='#808080'>S</font><font color='#808080'>M</font><font color='#808080'>T</font><font color='#FF0000'><b>W</b></font><font color='#FF0000'><b>T</b></font><font color='#808080'>F</font><font color='#808080'>S</font> 20:00 PM - 6:00 AM</div>]]></description>Notice at the first is "Exit ramp closed." There is nothing before it but, for some weird reason when I parse it. It is on a new line like so, notice it should be up there with "Incident" but, it is dropped down below it. Incident: Exit ramp closed. Current Status: Open Affected Lanes: Exit Ramp Dates: Wednesday, May 28 - Thursday, May 29 Days Closed: SMTWTFS 20:00 PM - 6:00 AMThis is how it is formated in the td cell.
<td style='{$td2Style}'><strong>Incident:</strong> {$incident_data_desc}</td>\n";
So as you can see above, there is nothing before it that would cause it to break to a new line both in the table or in the RSS.
So how can I remove that first return only is that is on the same line with it and not below it.
I have tried this and a couple of other things like trim with no luck.
$description = $item->description;
$incident_data_desc = str_replace("\r", '', $description );
Note, I only need that first one removed, the others are fine. I can do it but it will remove all the breaks and I only want to remove that first one that is causing the line to be on a new line.
Any suggestions?
-ThanksDoes anybody know of a function or a way of letting me get the string between whatever characters? Say I had [SOMEWORD] text [SOMEWORD] then how could I go about getting the value "text", please note I'm not trying to make bbcode or similar. How I can explode by a series of characters (not one single character)? For example, divide the string to an array by any of these characters "," and ";" and "." $string = "this, that;some.word;second"; I want to put all of these words into an array. Hello Everyone, I am working on a project I pull the field names from the database. I am trying to remove the underscore (_) when the field name is displayed. Does anyone know how I would do that? Here is the code that I am working with Code: [Select] $i = 0; while ($i < mysql_num_fields($fieldnamesquery_result)) { $meta = mysql_fetch_field($fieldnamesquery_result, $i); if (!$meta) { echo "No information available"; } $meta = str_replace("_", " ", $meta); $tablecolumn .= "<p>" . $meta->name . ":<input type='text' name='" . $meta->name . "' id='" . $meta->name . "' /></p>"; $i++; Hi, I am trying to search a string for a string of characters in this order ../ and carry out relevant if statements but it returns the same result every time. On echoing my $pos, $pos2, $pos3 and $pos4 variables the first two come back 0 and they are the strings that do contain ../ but the if statements perform the same? I don't understand, any ideas? Thanks... Code: [Select] <?php $logo = $info ['logo']; $pos = strpos($logo, "../");//check if image contains ../ if ($pos == 0) {} else { $logo = substr($logo, 3);} $image1 = $info ['image1']; $pos1 = strpos($image1, "../");//check if image contains ../ if ($pos1 == 0) {} else { $image1 = substr($image1, 3);} $image2 = $info ['image2']; $pos2 = strpos($image2, "../");//check if image contains ../ if ($pos2 == 0) {} else { $image2 = substr($image2, 3);} $image3 = $info ['image3']; $pos3 = strpos($image3, "../"); //check if image contains ../ if ($pos3 == 0) {} else { $image3 = substr($image3, 3);} ?> Am looking forward to removing all the numeric characters upto and including the leading "/" in 90/_featuredarticles/2011/12 Regards In <div id="chart_rt">%3$s</div> below, it is populated with a string that always begins with a number followed by a colon (from 1: to 25:). I see that ltrim removes characters from the beginning of a string but I don't see how to compensate for the extra character in 10: through 25: function wp_rss( $url, $num_items = -1 ) { if ( $rss = fetch_rss( $url ) ) { echo '<div id="charts">'; if ( $num_items !== -1 ) { $rss->items = array_slice( $rss->items, 0, $num_items ); } //start count $i = 1; foreach ( (array) $rss->items as $item ) { printf( '<div id="chart_lt">'.$i.'</div><div id="chart_rt">%3$s</div>', esc_url( $item['link'] ), esc_attr( strip_tags( $item['description'] ) ), htmlentities( $item['title'] ) ); //increment $i++; } echo '</div>'; } else { _e( 'An error has occurred, which probably means the feed is down. Try again later.' ); } } This topic has been moved to PHP Regex. http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=320682.0 I have a large amount of text, (text can be different at any time), I count the number of characters in the string,and divide it by 2 so that half of the text will be in one variable, the other half in the other, however I am not sure how to get the split function, or whichever function to split it by the number of characters. example: $text = "lorem ispum dolar sit amet, consecterur adiscing elit. Donec dictum placerat sapien, in eliefend liber"; $cut = strlen($text)/2; //(here's where i cannot get it to work/do not know which function to use and how to use it) //but what I want it to do is to split it half way. |
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