Manipulating Array Values [closed]

Question

What would be the easiest way to take some $_POST textinput data that looks like:

Array
(
    [0] => string() "The Black Keys - Gold On the Ceiling
    Angeline - Blackout
    Allele - Closure
    etc"
)

And turn it into this:

Array
(
    [0] => string() 'artist:"The Black Keys" track:"Gold On the Ceiling"'
    [1] => string() 'artist:"Angeline"  track"Blackout"'
    [2] => string() 'artist:"Allele"  track"Closure"'
    etc
)

Answer 1

You can simply achieve this by using explode.

Code in action: eval.in

$string = "The Black Keys - Gold On the Ceiling
    Angeline - Blackout
    Allele - Closure
    etc";
        print $string;

    $exploded_string = explode("\n",$string);

    foreach($exploded_string as $child_string){
    $array = explode(" - ",$child_string);
    $output[]= "artist:\"".trim($array[0])."\" track:\"".trim($array[1])."\"";
    }
        print_r($output);

Hope this will help.