John Davidson

Message:

I have the following data which is displaying as this

{123456  123456  123456}

{654321  654321  654321}

{123456  123456  123456}

My PHP Code:

$myarray = preg_split("/(\s|{\s)/", $data);

print_r($myarray);

The output of my array is like this:

[0] => {123456

[1] => 123456

[2] => 123456}

[3] => {654321

[4] => 654321

[5] => 654321}

[6] => {123456

[7] => 123456

[8] => 123456}

My question is, how to hide [0], [3] and [6] from the output? if you noticed, they start with a {
I'm not sure if I did a mistake coding the preg_split function

Desired behavior:

if the data is like this

{1  2  3}

{4  5  6}

{7  8  9}

the desired output should be like this:

[0] => 2

[1] => 3

[2] => 5

[3] => 6

[4] => 8

[5] => 9

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My Answer:
You can achieve the desired output by modifying your regular expression in the preg_split function. Here's an updated version of your code:

php
$data = "{123456 123456 123456}
{654321 654321 654321}
{123456 123456 123456}";

$myarray = preg_split("/\s+|\{|\}/", $data, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
$myarray = array_slice($myarray, 1); // Remove the first element

print_r($myarray);


This code will split the data by one or more whitespace characters (\s+), {, and }. The PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY flag is used to exclude empty elements from the resulting array. The array_slice function is then used to remove the first element from the array, which is the empty string before the first {.

This should give you the desired output with only the values from the 2nd and 3rd columns.