Question

How to parse and display below text in php and output it in hmtl?

What I need is a hint how to approach the spaces that separates the columns. The number of spaces is not fixed so I cannot use explode(" ",$string); And also I am not sure if the structure of below output has really fixed width columns. I want to make the parsing function generic.

The output comes from db2 list applications

Auth Id  Application    Appl.      Application Id                                                 DB       # of
         Name           Handle                                                                    Name    Agents
-------- -------------- ---------- -------------------------------------------------------------- -------- -----
DB2INST1 db2jcc_applica 11446      10.0.0.209.51406.120606004531                                  WEI      1    
DB2INST1 db2jcc_applica 11448      10.0.0.209.51407.120606004536                                  WEI      1    
DB2INST1 db2jcc_applica 13762      10.0.0.206.57473.120606024909                                  DOM_BUGS 1    
ADMIN    db2jcc_applica 15220      10.0.0.210.52248.120606045402                                  RATIONAL 1    
DB2INST1 php-fpm: pool  16546      127.0.0.2.35530.120606065726                                   KON      1    
DB2INST1 db2jcc_applica 16547      10.0.0.202.52042.120606065813                                  KON      1 

Answer 1

You can preg_split by space

$words = preg_split("/[\s]+/", $input);

//if your lines seperated by `\n` new line you could:
$inputArr = preg_split("/\R+/", $input);
foreach($inputArr as $value) {
   $out = preg_split("/\s+/", $value);
   var_dump($out);
}

Thanks