Array/foreach conundrum?

[CJi]

I give up.. this problem has been bugging me for most of the day :rolleyes:

Take for example, the following whois output:

tech-c:       DJW5-RIPE
tech-c:       BW1160-RIPE
tech-c:       DAR33-RIPE
nic-hdl:      ZIRA1-RIPE
remarks:      =================================================
remarks:      In order that we may process all queries/reports
remarks:      efficiently, please use the following methods of
remarks:      contact as appropriate:
remarks:      .
remarks:      e-mail: [b][e-mail][/b]
remarks:      phone: [phone]
remarks:      purpose: report instances of abuse involving ip
remarks:      space associated with this nic handle.
remarks:      .
remarks:      e-mail: [email][e-mail][/email]
remarks:      phone: [phone]
remarks:      purpose: queries concerning ip space or routing,
remarks:      peering, etc, associated with this nic handle.
remarks:      .
remarks:      please do NOT Cc e-mail to individual contact
remarks:      e-mail addresses. such messages are likely to
remarks:      be ignored.
remarks:      =================================================
mnt-by:       ZEN-MNT
changed:      [email][e-mail][/email] 19990602
changed:      [email][e-mail][/email] 20001025

What I want to get out of this output (and any like it from RIPE) is the abuse@ email address, which is highlighted above.

Can anyone give me some code that would find this? Each line is read into an array currently, and can be iterated over in a foreach loop.

Thanks in advance. 😕

[LordShryku]

I would think that if you are searching specifically for "abuse@", you could just use [man]strpos[/man]

[CJi]

That's where I started.. but it didn't seem to work. Perhaps something further up is broken.. I'll give it another shot.

Cheers for confirming suspicions.

[CJi]

Perhaps I'm going about this the wrong way, but I have, at least, found out what the problem is.

There are many keys with the same name.. of course, when a new key/value pair is read with the same key name, it overwrites the previous value! How can I read several lines into an array when the keys are the same? I can't can I...?

Has anyone got any workarounds, or perhaps an alltogether new approach that I haven't thought of, to get around this problem?

This is the code I have so far:

function whois($query, $server="localhost"){
    $fp = fsockopen ("$server", 43, $errno, $errstr, 30);
    if (!$fp) {
            $ret[] = "$errstr ($errno)\n";
    }else{
            fputs ($fp, "$query\r\n\r\n");
        $count=1;
            while (!feof($fp) && $count < 110) {
            $back = fgets ($fp,128);
            $data = explode(":",$back);
                $ret[$data[0]] = trim($data[1]);
            $count++;
            }
          fclose ($fp);
    }
   return $ret;
}

The problem is that every time a new 'remarks' line is read (or any line that has a duplicate 'key', as far as the above function is concerned, the value gets overwritten. 😕

[LordShryku]

I assume you mean this line:
$ret[$data[0]] = trim($data[1]);

You could make it multidimensional to preserve the keys...

$ret[$data[0]][] = trim($data[1]);

[CJi]

You started me on the right track with that idea .. cheers. Problem solved in the end. 🙂

Thanks again!