Question

I have a line of code in my wordpress widget that outputs from an RSS feed:

<?php echo $entry->title ?>

and when displayed it looks like:

$220,000 :: 504 Freemason St, Unit 2B, Norfolk VA, 23510

or

$274,900 :: 1268 Bells Road, Virginia Beach VA, 23454

What is the easiest way to break this up into different objects?

For example, I’d like to have the price, street name, and city state zip in different objects. The problem is that some of the addresses have unit numbers and it’s complicating things. Below is an example of how I would like it to work:

<?php echo $entry->price ?>
<?php echo $entry->street ?>
<?php echo $entry->citystatezip ?>

$220,000
504 Freemason St, Unit 2B
Norfolk VA, 23510

or

$274,900
1268 Bells Road
Virginia Beach VA, 23454

Answer 1

Here is a very crude regex that seems able to parse your string. I’m not the best with regexes, but it seems to work.

/^(\$(?:\d{1,3},?)*) :: (\d* [\w\s,\d]*), ([\w\s]* \w{2}, \d{5})$/

Use this with preg_match; the 1st group is the price, the 2nd is the address, and 3rd is the city/state/zip.

Example:

<?php
$ptn = '/^(\$(?:\d{1,3},?)*) :: (\d* [\w\s,\d]*), ([\w\s]* \w{2}, \d{5})$/';
if(preg_match($ptn, $entry->title, $match) === 1){
    $price = $match[1];
    $street = $match[2];
    $citystatezip = $match[3];
}