PHP - Searching for string and outputting into new string

Question

Let's say I put the following into a textbox:

1|[Guangzhou Evergrande](//www.gzevergrandefc.com/)|6|5-1-0|+15|**16**
2|[Shandong Luneng](//www.lunengsports.com/)|7|5-1-1|+7|**16**
3|[Qingdao Jonoon](//www.zhongnengfc.com/)|7|4-3-0|+4|**15**
4|[Beijing Guoan](//www.fcguoan.com/)|7|3-3-1|+2|**12**

when I press enter, it would take what's between the [ and ] and ( and ) and put it into new lines like this:

if ($name == "NAME_HERE") $name = "[".$name."](URL_HERE)";

I tried doing preg_match and using this pattern: $pattern = '/^[/'; and $pattern_end = '/^]/'; for the name -- jsut to test -- but I cannot get it to work....

Here is what I have so far:

$string = '1|[Guangzhou Evergrande](//www.gzevergrandefc.com/)|6|5-1-0|+15|**16**';
$pattern =  '/\[(.*?\)].*?\((.*?)\)/';
$replacement = 'if ($name == "{1}") $name = "[".$name."]({2})";';
echo preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $string);

(.*?\) needs to be (.*?) since that bracket is for the subpattern — kero
– kero, Commented Apr 29, 2013 at 21:24

Robert · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-29 21:28:35Z

2

Your pattern should be

 '/\[(.*?)\]\((.*?)\)/'

because [ ] and ( ) are special characters. Use preg_match_all() function

when you use preg_match_all you can put () for submatches(subpattern)

example

<?php

$string = '1|[Guangzhou Evergrande](//www.gzevergrandefc.com/)|6|5-1-0|+15|**16**';
$matches = array();
preg_match_all("/(<([\w]+)[^>]*>)(.*?)(<\/\\2>)/", $string, $matches);

var_dump($matches);
?>

edited Apr 29, 2013 at 21:28

answered Apr 29, 2013 at 21:12

Robert

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test Over a year ago

I edited my question to include progress: I got Warning: preg_replace(): Compilation failed: missing ) at offset 21 ... fix.php on line 5

test Over a year ago

I got it using preg_array match and such! Tahanks.

pp19dd · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-29 21:28:28Z

Perhaps I don't fully understand what you are doing here, but, I see a data structure that can be exploded without a hassle. For example:

function get_football( $text ) {
    $r = array();
    $t = explode("\n", $text );
    foreach( $t as $l ) {
        $n = explode("|", $l);
        $r[] = $n;
    }
    return( $r );
}

This will get you a nicely structured set of data that you can foreach() through and further process. If the original text is stored inside $variable0, print_r( get_football( $variable0 ) ); will show a nice structure:

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [0] => 1
            [1] => [Guangzhou Evergrande](//www.gzevergrandefc.com/)
            [2] => 6
            [3] => 5-1-0
            [4] => +15
            [5] => **16**
        )

    [1] => Array

Of course, that $n[1] name can be broken down further in the loop. Anyhow, thereafter, you can loop through whatever menu you're building with a foreach() loop instead of hardcoding menu choices. Just something to consider.

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