Regular expression for some match in php

Question

I've a following regular expression

[^|]+(|[^|]+){15}

for the following line

|     1 |  2567 | Алма-атинська(І) вул.                     | 2     | 2      |5678     |Типовий лічил-|Санвузол          | 15.12.2016 | 10.11.2016 | 10.11.2020 | 23.10.2017 |            |    43.00 |bot       |

Its work fine, and I got all text between '|', but how can I pass any strings for these matches? For example, trim all backspaces, or delete some subsring.

so you want to remove extra spaces in between the whole string? — Alive to die - Anant, Nov 15 '17 at 07:44
@pr1nc3, trim backspaces, and format like this: $m[0] = 1; $m[1] = 2567; $m[2] = Алма-атинська; - get text before '('. etc. — NisuSan, Nov 15 '17 at 07:52
"how can I pass any regulars for this matches". What do you mean by this exactly? — ADyson, Nov 15 '17 at 08:04
Also, see [**How can I explode and trim whitespace?**](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19347005/how-can-i-explode-and-trim-whitespace) — Wiktor Stribiżew, Nov 15 '17 at 08:07
@AlivetoDie, I saw, thanks, it's really help me understood preg_match_all work. — NisuSan, Nov 15 '17 at 13:22

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 15 '17 at 07:51

You can explode(), followed by trim() to remove additional spaces, etc. And finally use array_filter to remove blank values from the array:

$str = '|     1 |  2567 | Алма-атинська(І) вул.                     | 2     | 2      |5678     |Типовий лічил-|Санвузол          | 15.12.2016 | 10.11.2016 | 10.11.2020 | 23.10.2017 |            |    43.00 |bot       |';
$arr = array_filter(array_map(function($value){return trim($value);},explode('|', $str)));
print_r($arr);

Output:

Array ( [1] => 1 [2] => 2567 [3] => Алма-атинська(І) вул. [4] => 2 [5] => 2 [6] => 5678 [7] => Типовий лічил- [8] => Санвузол [9] => 15.12.2016 [10] => 10.11.2016 [11] => 10.11.2020 [12] => 23.10.2017 [14] => 43.00 [15] => bot )

But if string not contains this pattern, how can I escape it? For example this line: `$str = "+-------+--------------+-------------------------------------------+-------+--------+--------------+--------------+------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------+----------+-----------------+"; ` — NisuSan, Nov 15 '17 at 10:34
the question you asked talks about spaces. this is a completely different string, having no spaces at all, and infact have + and - signs. — Milan Chheda, Nov 15 '17 at 10:51

Regular expression for some match in php

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