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I was browsing another forum earlier today and came across someone who wanted to split a string into an array. That's a fairly simple task with explode(). But they also wanted anything in between brackets to be left alone.

I came up with a solution that works fine, but I'm fairly certain there's a better way to do it. Here's what I've got.

PHP Code:


		
			
<?php
$string = "501,Red_Potion,Red Potion,0,50,,70,,,,,0xFFFFFFFF,7,2,,,,,,{ itemheal rand(45,65),0; },{},{}";
echo '<pre>';
print_r(picky_explode($string));
echo '</pre>'; 

function picky_explode($string) {
    $array = explode(',',$string);
    $array_size = count($array);
    foreach ($array as $key => $value) {
        $newvalue = '';
        // The code below combines any array elements between a pair of brackets {}
        if (strpos($value,'{') !== false) {
            for ($i = $key;$i<=$array_size;$i++) {
                $newvalue .= ",".$array[$i];
                if (strpos($array[$i],'}') !== false) {
                    for ($x=$i;$x>$key;$x--) {
                        $kill[] = $x;
                    }
                    break;
                }
            }
        } else {
            $newvalue = $value;
        }
        $array2[] = str_replace(",{", "{",$newvalue);
    }
    foreach ($kill as $value) {
        unset($array2[$value]);
    }
    foreach ($array2 as $value) {
        $final_array[] = $value;
    }
    return $final_array;
}
?>

Any ideas?

You could probably do this with preg_split, if we were clever enough. However, I for one am not. There are a few on TalkPHP which I'm sure are. This would be my solution:

php Code:

$szString = "501,bleh,{ itemheal rand(45,65),0; },bleh,1,2,3,{ohh,1,2}";
print_r(picky_explode(',', $szString));

function picky_explode($szSplitBy, $szString)
{
    $bInBrackets = false;
    $aReturn = array();
    $aParts = explode($szSplitBy, $szString);
    
    foreach ($aParts as $szPart)
    {
        if (!$bInBrackets)
        {
            $aReturn[] = $szPart;
        }
        
        if (substr($szPart, 0, 1) == '{')
        {
            $bInBrackets = true;
            continue;
        }
        
        $aReturn[count($aReturn) - 1] .= $szSplitBy . $szPart;
        
        if (substr($szPart, -1, 1) == '}')
        {
            $bInBrackets = false;
        }
    }
    
    return $aReturn;
}

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wildhoney (Post 15694)

You could probably do this with preg_split, if we were clever enough. However, I for one am not. There are a few on TalkPHP which I'm sure are. This would be my solution:

php Code:

$szString = "501,bleh,{ itemheal rand(45,65),0; },bleh,1,2,3,{ohh,1,2}";
print_r(picky_explode(',', $szString));

function picky_explode($szSplitBy, $szString)
{
    $bInBrackets = false;
    $aReturn = array();
    $aParts = explode($szSplitBy, $szString);
    
    foreach ($aParts as $szPart)
    {
        if (!$bInBrackets)
        {
            $aReturn[] = $szPart;
        }
        
        if (substr($szPart, 0, 1) == '{')
        {
            $bInBrackets = true;
            continue;
        }
        
        $aReturn[count($aReturn) - 1] .= $szSplitBy . $szPart;
        
        if (substr($szPart, -1, 1) == '}')
        {
            $bInBrackets = false;
        }
    }
    
    return $aReturn;
}

Returns odd results with the original string.

Code:

Array

(

    [0] => 501,501

    [1] => Red_Potion,Red_Potion

    [2] => Red Potion,Red Potion

    [3] => 0,0

    [4] => 50,50

    [5] => ,

    [6] => 70,70

    [7] => ,

    [8] => ,

    [9] => ,

    [10] => ,

    [11] => 0xFFFFFFFF,0xFFFFFFFF

    [12] => 7,7

    [13] => 2,2

    [14] => ,

    [15] => ,

    [16] => ,

    [17] => ,

    [18] => ,

    [19] => { itemheal rand(45,65),0; }

    [20] => {}

)

Yes, sorry, my bad. I forgot to put a line in a conditional statement. Try:

php Code:

$szString = "501,bleh,{ itemheal rand(45,65),0; },bleh,1,2,3,{ohh,1,2}";
print_r(picky_explode(',', $szString));

function picky_explode($szSplitBy, $szString)
{
    $bInBrackets = false;
    $aParts = explode($szSplitBy, $szString);
    $aReturn = array();
    
    foreach ($aParts as $szPart)
    {
        if (!$bInBrackets)
        {
            $aReturn[] = $szPart;
        }
        
        if (substr($szPart, 0, 1) == '{')
        {
            $bInBrackets = true;
            continue;
        }
        
        if ($bInBrackets)
        {
            $aReturn[count($aReturn) - 1] .= $szSplitBy . $szPart;
        }
        
        if (substr($szPart, -1, 1) == '}')
        {
            $bInBrackets = false;
        }
    }
    
    return $aReturn;
}

Not too sure about using preg_split but here's a possible regex solution:

PHP Code:


		
			
function regex_explode($string)

{

    preg_match_all('/

        # Previous character is start of string or a comma

        (?<=^|,)

        #Followed by

        (?:

            # Zero or more non-curly brace characters between curly braces

            {[^{}]*}

            # or 

            |

            # Zero or more non-comma characters

            [^,]*

        )

    /x', $string, $matches);

    

    // preg_match_all('/(?<=^|,)(?:{[^{}]*}|[^,]*)/', $string, $matches);

    

    return current($matches);

}