Two days ago I started working on a code parser and I'm stuck.
How can I split a string by commas that are not inside brackets? Let me show you what I mean.
I have this string to parse:
one, two, three, (four, (five, six), (ten)), seven
I would like to get this result:
array(
"one";
"two";
"three";
"(four, (five, six), (ten))";
"seven"
)
but instead I get:
array(
"one";
"two";
"three";
"(four";
"(five";
"six)";
"(ten))";
"seven"
)
How can I do this in PHP RegEx.
You can do that easier:
preg_match_all('/[^(,\s]+|\([^)]+\)/', $str, $matches)
But it would be better if you use a real parser. Maybe something like this:
$str = 'one, two, three, (four, (five, six), (ten)), seven';
$buffer = '';
$stack = array();
$depth = 0;
$len = strlen($str);
for ($i=0; $i<$len; $i++) {
$char = $str[$i];
switch ($char) {
case '(':
$depth++;
break;
case ',':
if (!$depth) {
if ($buffer !== '') {
$stack[] = $buffer;
$buffer = '';
}
continue 2;
}
break;
case ' ':
if (!$depth) {
continue 2;
}
break;
case ')':
if ($depth) {
$depth--;
} else {
$stack[] = $buffer.$char;
$buffer = '';
continue 2;
}
break;
}
$buffer .= $char;
}
if ($buffer !== '') {
$stack[] = $buffer;
}
var_dump($stack);