Say I have the following string:
BlahBlah........1.000
Whatevah....2.000
Something......6.500
...that is, some text, followed by four or more dots, followed by a number (that may have a dot as a delimiter) followed by a newline (Linux or Windows, I don't know if that's important). It's a part of a larger string.
How do I extract the text and numbers into variables? More precisely an array of value pairs (array of arrays). I just can't get my head around regular expressions yet... :(
use this regex:
(?<word>\w+)\.+(?<number>\d+(\.\d+)?)
with preg_match_all()
:
preg_match_all("/(?<word>\w+)\.+(?<number>\d+(\.\d+)?)/", $yourString, $theArrayYouWantToStoreMatchesInIt);
To capture anything after 4 dots you can use this :
(?<word>\w+)\.{4,}(?<anything>.*)
The following will also capture strings that have spaces in their first part:
(?<beforeDots>[^\.]+)\.{4,}(?<afterDots>.*)
It's also a good idea to limit the matching text to certain range of characters to make the regex more accurate:
(?<beforeDots>[a-zA-Z0-9 ]+)\.{4,}(?<afterDots>[a-zA-Z0-9\. ]+)
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