Question

I need help in parsing a text file. This text file has a few html tags in it. What I am looking for is a Solution (Either in PHP or JS or both) which will strip all these, and store the output into separate variables.

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*HEADER INFO*
    *View Object:* 6541997  *BPO:* 0020064484   *Ack Date:* 2012-05-25
    *Operation(s):* PS_Queue, PS_BoxAll, JPN_End

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*EXTERNAL ORDER NUMBER REFERENCE*
*SAP Sales Order Number*    *Customer P.O. Number*  *Legacy Order Number*
0310407774      89FC37763001

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*PRODUCTS FOR THIS WORK OBJECT/OPERATION(S)*
*PL*    *Product #*     *Qty*   *Options*   *Serial #*
LN  AE241A  1        

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*Station Info*
*Start Station:* JPN_End    *Location:* Done    *Station:*
*Birth Date/Time:* 2012-05-22 08:26:17 SGT  *Power Cord:*   *Voltage:*

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*MATERIAL LIST FOR THIS WORK OBJECT/OPERATION(S)*
*Part Number*   *Qty*   *Description*   *BB Type*   *Material
Location*   *Serial Number*
AE241-90001     1   XP Remote Support Service Leaflet   BOM     PACK     


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I basically Want to strip a few text from this code into php variables, so it will return:

$viewobject = "6541997"
$BPO = "0020064484"
$ackdate = "2012-05-25"
$operations = "PS_Queue, PS_BoxAll, JPN_End"
$sapSO = "0310407774"
$legacyON = "89FC37763001"
$pl = "LN"
$product = "AE241A"
$qty = 1;
$startstn = "JPN_end"
$location = "Done"
$bdate = "PS_Queue, PS_BoxAll, JPN_End"
$pn = "AE241-90001"
$qty = 1;
$description =" XP Remote Support Service Leaflet";

and the like. Is this possible?

Answer 1

Use regular expression.

preg_match_all('/\*(view object|bpo|ack date):\*\s+([0-9\-]+)/i', $text, $m);

// $m contains matches, try to print_r($m)

$viewobject = $m[2][0];  // 6541997
$bpo = $m[2][1];         // 0020064484
$ackdate = $m[2][2];     // 2012-05-25