Splitting a string into arrays within an array but only one delimiter?

[spreadbetting]

I'm trying to split a string into an separate arrays but the data is
only delimited by a comma. The actual data is one long string but the
info is in a regular format and repeats after every five ~'s .
i.e the data may be returned as
1.01~11844.69~0 .0~0.0~2.0~1.02 ~117.3~0.0~0.0~ 0.0~1.03~66.82~ 0.0~0.0~0.0~1.0 *
4~300.0~0.0~0.0 ~0.0~
I guess I just have to loop through every five ~'s but unsure of the
best way using php , with C# I guess I could use length but haven't
too much of a clue using php. At the moment I'm even considering a
dirty fix using preg_replace to change the delimiter every 5 ~'s but
there must be a more correct way
Thanks

[GuangXiN]

sp***********@g mail.com wrote:

I'm trying to split a string into an separate arrays but the data is
only delimited by a comma. The actual data is one long string but the
info is in a regular format and repeats after every five ~'s .
i.e the data may be returned as
1.01~11844.69~0 .0~0.0~2.0~1.02 ~117.3~0.0~0.0~ 0.0~1.03~66.82~ 0.0~0.0~0.0~1.0 *
4~300.0~0.0~0.0 ~0.0~
I guess I just have to loop through every five ~'s but unsure of the
best way using php , with C# I guess I could use length but haven't
too much of a clue using php. At the moment I'm even considering a
dirty fix using preg_replace to change the delimiter every 5 ~'s but
there must be a more correct way
Thanks

Can you show the source string, and the split results?
I don't understand what you meaning

[Captain Paralytic]

On 10 Jun, 10:14, spreadbett...@g mail.com wrote:

I'm trying to split a string into an separate arrays but the data is
only delimited by a comma. The actual data is one long string but the
info is in a regular format and repeats after every five ~'s .

i.e the data may be returned as

1.01~11844.69~0 .0~0.0~2.0~1.02 ~117.3~0.0~0.0~ 0.0~1.03~66.82~ 0.0~0.0~0.0~1.0 **
4~300.0~0.0~0.0 ~0.0~

You say: "the data is only delimited by a comma."
But the data you show us has no commas??

Please can you clarify this?

[Jerry Stuckle]

sp***********@g mail.com wrote:

I'm trying to split a string into an separate arrays but the data is
only delimited by a comma. The actual data is one long string but the
info is in a regular format and repeats after every five ~'s .
i.e the data may be returned as
1.01~11844.69~0 .0~0.0~2.0~1.02 ~117.3~0.0~0.0~ 0.0~1.03~66.82~ 0.0~0.0~0.0~1.0 *
4~300.0~0.0~0.0 ~0.0~
I guess I just have to loop through every five ~'s but unsure of the
best way using php , with C# I guess I could use length but haven't
too much of a clue using php. At the moment I'm even considering a
dirty fix using preg_replace to change the delimiter every 5 ~'s but
there must be a more correct way
Thanks

Or explode() the string on '~' and take every 5 items and place them in
their own array.

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[sheldonlg]

sp***********@g mail.com wrote:

I'm trying to split a string into an separate arrays but the data is
only delimited by a comma. The actual data is one long string but the
info is in a regular format and repeats after every five ~'s .
i.e the data may be returned as
1.01~11844.69~0 .0~0.0~2.0~1.02 ~117.3~0.0~0.0~ 0.0~1.03~66.82~ 0.0~0.0~0.0~1.0 *
4~300.0~0.0~0.0 ~0.0~
I guess I just have to loop through every five ~'s but unsure of the
best way using php , with C# I guess I could use length but haven't
too much of a clue using php. At the moment I'm even considering a
dirty fix using preg_replace to change the delimiter every 5 ~'s but
there must be a more correct way
Thanks

If I understand you correctly, then:

$outer = explode('~',$th eString);
for ($i=0; $i<count($first ); $i++) {
$final[$i] = explode(',', $outer[$i]);
}

This gives a 2-D array for final.

[Captain Paralytic]

On 10 Jun, 13:59, spreadbett...@g mail.com wrote:

Sorry about the confusion , was in a rush when posted it

The string data I want to split is in the format

1.01~11844.69~0 .0~0.0~2.0~1.02 ~117.3~0.0~0.0~ 0.0~1.03~66.82~ 0.0~0.0~0.0~1.0 ***
4~300.0~0.0~0.0 ~0.0~

Separated by tildes ~ not commas :(

Basically need to do what Jerry says explode it and take every 5 items
as a separate array , I'll take a look at sheldonig's example if I'm
assuming correctly tat $first would be 5 in my case ?

Thanks for al the posts and sorry again for the confusion with the
commas

sheldonlg's one won't work, because he was assuming that there were
some commas.

I would do an initial explode and then use array_slice()
http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.array-slice.php to get my chunks
of 5.

[spreadbetting]

Thanks Captain, I tried array_slice but it's does exactley what it
says on the tin and just slices off a part of the array, doesn't
actually put it anywhere useable, I'm sure I need to use count
somewhere along the line

[spreadbetting]

Thanks again captain I was looking through the other array functions
on the php.net site and found exactly what I need in array_chunk.
Seems to do just what I needed

[Captain Paralytic]

On 10 Jun, 15:24, spreadbett...@g mail.com wrote:

Thanks again captain I was looking through the other array functions
on the php.net site and found exactly what I need in array_chunk.
Seems to do just what I needed

array_slice() would have worked, but you are right, array_chunk() is
exactly what you need.

[Michael Fesser]

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>Thanks Captain, I tried array_slice but it's does exactley what it
says on the tin and just slices off a part of the array, doesn't
actually put it anywhere useable

Have you actually read the manual entry? array_slice() returns the
extracted part.

Micha