php regex to read select form

Question

I have a source file with a select form with some options, like this:

<option value="TTO">1031</option><option value="187">187</option><option value="TWO">2SK8</option><option value="411">411</option><option value="AEL">Abec 11</option><option value="ABE">Abec11</option><option value="ACE">Ace</option><option value="ADD">Addikt</option><option value="AFF">Affiliate</option><option value="ALI">Alien Workshop</option><option value="ALG">Alligator</option><option value="ALM">Almost</option>

I would like to read this file using php and regex, but I don't really know how. Anybody an idea? It would be nice to have an array with the 3 digits code as a key, and the longer string as a value. (so, for example, $arr['TWO'] == '2SK8')

Answer 1

<?php                      
$options= '
<option value="TTO">1031</option><option value="187">187</option><option value="TWO">2SK8</option><option value="411">411</option><option value="AEL">Abec 11</option><option value="ABE">Abec11</option><option value="ACE">Ace</option><option value="ADD">Addikt</option><option value="AFF">Affiliate</option><option value="ALI">Alien Workshop</option><option value="ALG">Alligator</option><option value="ALM">Almost</option>
';
preg_match_all( '@(<option value="([^"]+)">([^<]+)<\/option>)@', $options, $arr);

$result = array();
foreach ($arr[0] as $i => $value)
{
    $result[$arr[2][$i]] = $arr[3][$i];
}
print_r($result);
?>

output:

Array
(
    [TTO] => 1031
    [187] => 187
    [TWO] => 2SK8
    [411] => 411
    [AEL] => Abec 11
    [ABE] => Abec11
    [ACE] => Ace
    [ADD] => Addikt
    [AFF] => Affiliate
    [ALI] => Alien Workshop
    [ALG] => Alligator
    [ALM] => Almost
)