string parsing help
- by sprugman
I've got a string like this:
####################
Section One
####################
Data A
Data B
####################
Section Two
####################
Data C
Data D
etc.
I want to parse it into something like:
$arr(
'Section One' => array('Data A', 'Data B'),
'Section Two' => array('Data C', 'Data D')
)
At first I tried this:
$sections = preg_split("/(\r?\n)(\r?\n)#/", $file_content);
The problem is, the file isn't perfectly clean: sometimes there are different numbers of blank lines between the sections, or blank spaces between data rows.
The section head pattern itself seems to be relatively consistent:
####################
Section Title
####################
The number of #'s is probably consistent, but I don't want to count on it. The white space on the title line is pretty random.
Once I have it split into sections, I think it'll be pretty straightforward, but any help writing a killer reg ex to get it there would be appreciated. (Or if there's a better approach than reg ex...)
