Question

I have no idea on how to do this, it’d probably use an explode but that’d not do exactly as I wanted.

Say I have a string:

a,1,1,0,0;0,1,1,0,0;r,1,1,0,0;

and I have an array:

a = atv
p = 330c
U = blista
c = BMW
D = bobcat
r = charger

I’d like it so that when it’s called as a function on that string like seperateString($string); that it’d return something like “atv, charger”

I’ve tried some searching but to no avail have I found something which would return a string specific to the array.

Answer 1

Try this:

$string = "a,1,1,0,0;0,1,1,0,0;r,1,1,0,0;";
$array = array('a' => 'atv',
  'p' => '330c',
  'U' => 'blista',
  'c' => 'BMW',
  'D' => 'bobcat',
  'r' => 'charger');

function separateString($array, $string) {
  $result = array();
  $chunks = preg_split('/[,;]/', $string);
    foreach ($chunks as $chunk) {
    if (array_key_exists($chunk, $array)) {
      $result[] = $array[$chunk];
    }
  }
  return $result;
}

print_r(separateString($array, $string));

Outputs:

Array
(
    [0] => atv
    [1] => charger
)

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