Turn SOME lines from a string into an array via regex???

[atw]

Hi guys,

I have been working on this for 4 hours now and cannot get my head around it (I know there is a simple solution).

I have a script running which returns this content:

---
FieldType: Text
FieldName: user_email
FieldFlags: 12582912
FieldJustification: Right
---
FieldType: Text
FieldName: user_phone
FieldFlags: 12582912
FieldJustification: Right
---
FieldType: Text
FieldName: user_url
FieldFlags: 12582912
FieldJustification: Right

How would I go about returning an array of just the FieldNames (the bit after the colons) without the ---, FieldType, FieldFlags or FieldJustification???

Desired output from the example above:

Array
(
    [0] => user_email
    [1] => user_phone
    [2] => user_url
)

Thank you very much for your time, many thanks,

Andy

[crmalibu]

$p = '#FieldName: (.+)\s#';
preg_match_all($p, $text, $m);
print_r($m[1]); 

[atw]

Legend!

Thank you!

[Salathe]

$p = '#FieldName: (.+)\s#'; 

I'd probably go more for /^FieldName: (.+)$/m

It just seems a little more logical to me, given the source data and what's wanted. Of course, there are many ways to skin this cat.

[lampcms.com]

Not sure if thats what you were looking for, try this:

$str = <<<EOD
---
FieldType: Text
FieldName: user_email
FieldFlags: 12582912
FieldJustification: Right
---
FieldType: Text
FieldName: user_phone
FieldFlags: 12582912
FieldJustification: Right
---
FieldType: Text
FieldName: user_url
FieldFlags: 12582912
FieldJustification: Right
EOD;

$arrFields = preg_split("/---/", $str);

$aResult = array();
for($i=0; $i<count($arrFields); $i+=1){
	$Val = $arrFields[$i];
	if(!empty($Val)){
		
		$arr = explode("\n", $Val);
		foreach($arr as $line){
			if(!empty($line)){
				$aLine = explode(":", $line);
				if(array_key_exists('1', $aLine)){
					echo __LINE__.' aLine: '.print_r($aLine, true)."\n";
					$arr[] = $aLine[1];
				}

				$aResult[$i][] = $arr;
			}
		}
	}
}


print_r($aResult);

[atw]

Hi guys,

Thank you for your responses.

crmalibu's solution works perfectly.

@Salathe: Could you explain why your regex is better, so that I can choose which one to use in the final implementation?

Again, many thanks guys

[Salathe]

Sure, it just takes a slightly different approach to crmalibu's pattern. Mine checks for [i]start of a line followed by "Fieldname: " followed by something (not a newline) followed by the end of a line[i] whereas crmalibu's checks for "Fieldname: " (not necessarily at the start of a line) followed by something (not a newline) followed by a whitespace character (probably a newline, could be a tab or space…). I also didn't say that it was better, just different. Mine is a little more precisely focussed on your content sample in the first post.