Question

I get a string that looks like this

<br>
ACCEPT:YES
<br>
SMMD:tv240245ce
<br>

is contained in a variable $_session[‘result’]

I am trying to parse through this string and get the following either in an array or as separate variables

1. ACCEPT:YES
2. tv240245ce

I first tried

to explode the string using
as the delimiter, and that did not work

then I already tried

$yes = explode(":", strip_tags($_SESSION['result']));
echo print_r($yes);

which gives me an array like so

Array ( [0] => ACCEPT [1] => YESSEED [2] => tv240245ce ) 1 

which gives me one of my answers.

Please what would be a great way of trying to achieve what I am trying to achieve?

is there a way to get rid of the first and last?
then use the remaining one as a delimiter to explode the string ?

or what’s the best way to go about this ?

Answer 1

This will do it:

$data=preg_split('/\s?<br>\s?/', str_replace('SMMD:','',$data), NULL, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);

See example here:
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