John Davidson

Message:

how i can parse a string formed from two block:

1. { text }


2. text

I have two regex for both situazion:

1. \{[^\}]+\}


2. *.

But not understood with combine it in one regex. I have thinked to use or ( | ) operator doing so:

/(\{[^\}]+\}|.*)/

But it don't work. How i can solve it?

In concrete, if i have a string as:

"{this is first text} this is second text {this is third text}"

using preg_match_all i want to have somthing as:

Array

(

    [0] => Array

        (

            [0] => {this is first text}

            [1] => this is second text

            [2] => {this is third text}

        )



)

But i have as result:

Array

(

    [0] => Array

        (

            [0] => {this is first text}

            [1] => this is second text {this is third text}

            [2] => 

        )



)

Thanks very much for help.

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My Answer:
You can achieve the desired result by using the following regex pattern:

php
$pattern = '/\{[^\}]+\}|[^{]+/';
$string = "{this is first text} this is second text {this is third text}";

preg_match_all($pattern, $string, $matches);

print_r($matches[0]);


This will output:


Array
(
[0] => {this is first text}
[1] => this is second text
[2] => {this is third text}
)


This pattern will match either text enclosed in curly braces or text that is not enclosed in curly braces, effectively splitting the string based on the specified separator.