Text Area to Array I think

danieliser

Ok here goes.. ive been looking for hours and i must not know what to search for i guess.. ok i need to take the input of a text area line by line but also i need to seperate out the word from the number on each line.. example

find 123
do 123
change 123

i need that input format read into 2 variables i believe. one for the word for a for if statement and the number to be a variable in the followup script for each if..

and i also need it to repeat the process. so im assuming a for each is in order.. but i cant for the life of me find something i can get my mind arround that explains how something like this could be done.. im not asking for somebody to do this for me.. but give me some hints in the right direction or post sniplets of code that i could at least break down and use to create my own from examples.. thanks in advance..

dagon

explode on new line the explode on space, regular expressions if you need a more complex matching

djjjozsi

The best way for these tasks is a CSV file.
(this code has already done)

<form name="form2" method="post" action="2.php">
Vars:<br>
<textarea name="var1" rows="10"></textarea>
 <br> <input type="submit" name="Submit2" value="Submit"> </form>
<?php

if (isset($_POST["Submit2"]))
{
$t=explode("\r\n",$_POST["var1"]);

foreach($t AS $row)
{
$rrr=explode(" ",$row);
print $rrr[0]."  - ".$rrr[1]."<br />";

}
}

?>

webdes03

The method I would use would vary based on how you want to manipulate the data. The first step would be to build an array containing each line from the text area using explode("\n",$textarea);. Then you can either use regex to read each value as you loop through the array, or you can use explode again and build 2 new arrays so you can reference $number[] or $text[] to access the data. It all depends on how you want to access the data.

danieliser

Ok.. so i think this is the path i should be on

variables into array using exlode with the \n. from there i will run a foreach on each line (still formatted as "task 123" at this point). In the foreach i will use the explode() again? to split that into 2 variables? or the split()? as i dont want to split those before the foreach because the "task" assigns what output should look like and the "123" is used to call all the variables from the database. i am so close to done on this project .. this is one of the few things holding me up.. thanks for all your help in advance

webdes03

$thelines = explode("\n",$textarea);
foreach ($thelines as $key => $line) {
  $values = explode(" ",$line);
  $data = $values[0];
  $nums = $values[1];
}

Or you could build an array that sets the key as the numbers.

$thelines = explode("\n",$textarea);
$allvalues = array();
foreach ($thelines as $key => $line) {
  $values = explode(" ",$line);
  $allvalues[$values[0]] = $values[1];
}

Then you can reference each one from the $allvalues array.

echo $allvalues['find']; // outputs 123