I'd like to explode a multi-line-string like this
color:red
material:metal
to an array like this
$array['color']=red
$array['material']=metal
any idea?
Use explode(), you can use a regexp for it, but it's simple enough without the overhead.
$data = array();
foreach (explode("\n", $dataString) as $cLine) {
list ($cKey, $cValue) = explode(':', $cLine, 2);
$data[$cKey] = $cValue;
}
As mentioned in comments, if data is coming from a Windows/DOS environment it may well have CRLF newlines, adding the following line before the foreach()
would resolve that.
$dataString = str_replace("\r", "", $dataString); // remove possible \r characters
The alternative with regexp can be quite pleasant using preg_match_all() and array_combine():
$matches = array();
preg_match_all('/^(.+?):(.+)$/m', $dataString, $matches);
$data = array_combine($matches[1], $matches[2]);
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