[RESOLVED] Find string in string in file with repeating data

mrcaveman

I have files with the following data:

SEQ: [+1]
DTM: [203:20050914:102]
FII: [OR+05407059214]

SEQ: [+2]
DTM: [203:20050915:102]
FII: [OR+05407059999]

SEQ: [+3]
DTM: [203:20050813:102]
FII: [OR+05407099999]

and so on....

The file could have 1 or 100 sections and I recieve them every day.

I want to put the information into a database. I'm thinking of the following solution where $contents is the data above:

$SEQ = explode('SEQ', $contents);
$count_SEQ = (count($SEQ) - 1);
$ii = 0;
$iii = 0;

for ($i = 0; $i < $count_SEQ; $i++)
{	
	$SEQ1 = explode("SEQ: [", $contents);
	$SEQ2 = explode("]", $SEQ1[1]);

$DTM = explode("DTM: [", $SEQ[$iii]);
$DTM = explode("]", $DTM[1]);

$FII = explode("FII: [OR+", $SEQ[$iii]);
$FII = explode("]", $FII[1]);

$SEQ2_.$ii =	$SEQ2[0];
            $DTM_.$ii =	$DTM[0];
$FII_.$ii =	$FII[0];

$ii = $ii + 1;
$iii = ($iii + 2);
}

One problem with this is that it is not possible to use

$SEQ2_.$ii

I'm trying to have a variable where the name has a number that increase after every loop. Can anyone help me with a solution for this??

Is there an easyer way to do this? Does anyone know of a script that could do this for me?

Looking forward to your input!

laserlight

You're looking to use variable variables.

Weedpacket

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.array.php

mrcaveman

Thanks to both of you. After some hours I figured it out and I'm posting the result in case others have the same problem. Did not have to use variable variables. What I learned from this is that using "." does not work, but $variable[$number] works.

$SEQ = explode('SEQ', $contents);
$count_SEQ = (count($SEQ) - 1);
$ii = 0;
$iiii = 1;

for ($i = 0; $i < $count_SEQ; $i++)
{	
	$SEQ1 = explode("SEQ: [", $contents);
	$SEQ2 = explode("]", $SEQ1[$iiii]);
	$DTM = explode("DTM: [", $SEQ[$iiii]);
	$DTM = explode("]", $DTM[1]);
	$FII = explode("FII: [OR+", $SEQ[$iiii]);
	$FII = explode("]", $FII[1]);

            $seq2[$ii] = $SEQ2[0];
            $dtm[$ii] = $DTM[0];
            $fii[$ii] =	$FII[0];

$ii = $ii + 1;
$iiii = ($iiii + 1);
}

$ii = 0;

for ($i = 0; $i < $count_SEQ; $i++)
{	
echo "<font color=blue><b>$seq2[$ii]<br>";
echo "$dtm[$ii]<br>";
echo "$fii[$ii]<br>";
$ii = $ii + 1;
}