Question

I have a String as follows

“2012-06-29 Some text 2012-06-30 Some text ..”
I m splitting the above text in php using split(regex of the date), but i need to get that date too. I wanted to get the split string i have used to split the string. I need Split String , the date and the string that following in separate variables to process.

Like

   2012-06-29 App Started
   2012-06-30 Login Event

How can i get this in php

Answer 1

Somthingl like?

preg_match_all("#(?<date>[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}) (?<text>[^0-9]+)#", $text, $matches)

Exemple code

        $text = "2012-12-25 xmas 1984-06-01 Puggans birhday 2012-07-28 today";

        preg_match_all("#(?<date>[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}) (?<text>[^0-9]+)#", $text, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER);

        foreach($matches as $current_match)
        {
                echo "<tr><td>" . $current_match['date'] . "</td><td>" . trim($current_match['text']) . "</td></tr>\n";
        }
?>