Custom data formatting: String help

[bschwarz]

Hi,

I'm trying to get a bunch of data that I'm creating in flash to be redrawn with the MING library, this isn't the problem though.

I want to be able to make flash parse a dataset like:

5, 25, 25, 255, 0, 0, 0; 5, 10, 5, 255, 0, 0, 0; 5, 30, 50, 255, 0, 0, 0;

I have it so that for each ", " it writes a new var...

  list($size,$x,$y,$r,$g,$b)=split(",", $data);

But I also want it to loop all the stuff within, so many times for each " ; " in the code
so that way it knows that after each ; there will be a new object.

How would I go about this?

Thanks for reading in advance.

Cheers

[tbach2]

perhaps something along this line?

$data_set = '5, 25, 25, 255, 0, 0, 0; 5, 10, 5, 255, 0, 0, 0; 5, 30, 50, 255, 0, 0, 0;';
$data_array = implode(';',$data_set);
for($i=0;$i<sizeof($data_array);$i++) {
    list($size,$x,$y,$r,$g,$b)=split(",", $data_array[$i]);
    // any other action that needs to be done
}

BTW, I noticed that you have 6 variables for 7 values... maybe I misunderstood what you were asking?

[bschwarz]

I was working something similer myself:

 $count = substr_count($data, ";");

		        for($i=0; $i<$count; $i++){
		        	list($size,$x[$i],$y[$i],$r[$i],$g[$i],$b[$i])=split(",", $data);
		    		print ("R: " . $r[$i] . "<BR>");
		    		print ("G: " . $g[$i] . "<BR>");
		    		print ("B: " . $b[$i] . "<BR>");
		    		print ("Size: " . $size[$i] . "<BR>");
		    		print ("X: " . $x[$i] . "<BR>");
		    		print ("Y: " . $y[$i] . "<BR><BR>");
		    	}

This is all being pulled from a database, structure is as follows:

id order_id title description username date price drawing_data
1 000001 Datebase test This is to test the database. bena 13/08/03 $40.00 5,10,10,255,255,255
2 000002 Database Test 2 This is also to test the mofo bena 13/08/03 $55.00 5,25,25,255,0,0; 7,50,80,255,0,0;

Anyway, I was trying your method and the for line seems to error, I can't work out why at all?
I tried swapping the sizeof to count (because I wasn't familier with it but of course that didn't make a difference);

[awligon]

it's supposed to be explode rather than implode to take a string to an array.

[awligon]

$i=1;
$data_string = "blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah; blah, blah..."
$data_array = explode(";", $data_string);
foreach($data_array as $newVal){
  print "var$i=$newVal";
  $i++;
}

[bschwarz]

$data_string_=_"blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah; blah, blah...";

seems to error.. even though I added a semi colon after the line...

Any ideas why that would happen?

[awligon]

yeah, try something more practical like

$data_string '5, 6 , 32, 225, 4, 4; 3, 4, 5, 2, 5, 3;';

Also, you may have to escape the semi-colon.

$data_string '5, 6 , 32, 225, 4, 4/; 3, 4, 5, 2, 5, 3/;';

[bschwarz]

I was on a mac at uni when I posted that...

the error was because of some wierd little fucking characters that I couldn't see.. man thats annoying.

Thanks for the help folks, working it now.

[bschwarz]

Yeah, I've got it going, I'm stoked now.
Thanks for the help guys 🙂

[awligon]

no prob