String parsing.. preg_match problem?

[solodesignz]

Hey,

I need some help parsing some text and turning it into some array values...

Basically I will have some text like this:

CRITICAL 3-501.16(A)*    PHF Hot Holding->140°F

Or like this:

5-501.17    Receptacle in women's toilet room coveredCRITICAL 3-302.11(A)(1)(a)*   Separation-Raw & raw RTE     

I need to parse out the data into an array... so for the second example, I need an array similar to this:

$array = array(
                   array("5-501.17","","Receptacle in women's toilet room covered"),
                   array("3-302.11","CRITICAL","Separation-Raw & raw RTE ")
              );

array[0] needes to be the number value... [1] needs to be either true/false if critical exists right before the number value, or just write out CRITICAL if it exiists... and [2] needs to be the text description after the number value...

Also, there can be one or more numbers with descriptions in the text string...

Could anyone please help me out with this?

thanks!!!

ps: one more exa,ple just so you can get an idea of the varioustext strings i have to deal with:

CRITICAL 3-501.16(A)*    PHF Hot Holding->140°F CRITICAL 3-501.16(C)*    PHF Cold Holding-41-45°F

[bretticus]

Looking at this initially I thought a simple preg_match_all might suffice, but it is tricky to match the message part of the string (especially with everything appearing on one line and all. It is on one line right?) Therefore, I used preg_replace to insert a delimit char to help isolate each stanza. Seeing that the CRITICAL+number format part of the text seemed to follow a predictable pattern, I matched on it. If this following code doesn't work, hopefully it will, at least, point you in the right direction.

// test string
$string = 'CRITICAL 3-501.16(A)*    PHF Hot Holding->140°F CRITICAL 3-501.16(C)*    PHF Cold Holding-41-45°F 3-501.16(C)*    PHF Cold Holding-41-45°F';
// pattern for isolating text
$pattern = '/\b(CRITICAL\s)?[1-9]\-[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\([A-Z]\)\*/';
// pattern for parsing matches from isolated text
$subpattern = '/^(CRITICAL\s)?([1-9]\-[0-9]+\.[0-9]+)\([A-Z]\)\*\s+([A-Z0-9].+)$/';
$replacement = '|$0';
// replace test string with new string that has a uniform delimeter (pipe=>|)
$delimited_string = preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $string);
// split string into array by pipe
$temp_status_array = explode('|', $delimited_string);
// init results array.
$status_array = array();
// loop through new array
foreach ($temp_status_array as $curr_status) {
	// first array element was empty so only work on non-empty elements
	if (!empty($curr_status)) {
		// do our subpattern matching to isolate required information
		preg_match($subpattern, $curr_status, $submatches);
		$is_critical = ( trim($submatches[1]) == "CRITICAL" ) ? 1 : 0;
		$number = $submatches[2];
		$message = $submatches[3];
		// append matches into results array.
		$status_array[] = array($number, $is_critical, $message);
	}
}
// print our result array for debugging
print_r($status_array);

[solodesignz]

Thank you so much!
This works great! However, looking at your patterns (I do not know patterns too well, thats why I went here to try to get some help).. Anyways, looking at your patterns it looks like your always searching for something thats exactly 3.504.12(A)*

The * and the (A) are optional, and also could have more (a)'s or other characters...

I changed your first pattern to this to make it a bit more flexible

$pattern = '/(CRITICAL\s)?[1-9]\-[0-9]+\.[0-9]/';

However, I cannot figure out the second, subpattern.

THink you could help me out?

Try this string, and you will see what I mean:

$string  = "5-501.17    Receptacle in women's toilet room coveredCRITICAL 3-302.11(A)(1)(a)*   Separation-Raw & raw RTE     ";

[solodesignz]

bump
Sorry, but just seeing if anyone can help me with this pattern problem??

Thanks!!