Online PHP editor | output for NBgaT

@ 2018-11-11T14:02:42Z

<?php

$input = [
    'new message from Bob [22:105:3905:534]',
    'user Dylan posted a question in section General',
    'new message from Mary(gold) [19504:8728:18524:78941]'
];

$formats = [
    '/new message from (\w+) \[(\d+):(\d+):(\d+):(\d+)\]/', // this would actually be something like '/(?<=new message from )(.*)(?=[)(.*)(?=:)(.*)(?=:)(.*)(?=:)(.*)(?=])/'
    '/user (\w+) posted a question in section ([\w ]+)/',
    '/new message from (\w+)\((\w+)\) \[(\d+):(\d+):(\d+):(\d+)\]/',
];

foreach ($input as $line) {
    foreach ($formats as $key => $format) {
        $data = [];
        if (preg_match($format, $line, $data)) {
            array_shift($data);
            echo 'format: ' . $key . ', data: ' . var_export($data, true) . "\n";
            continue;
        }
    }
}

Output for 5.6.0 - 5.6.40, 7.0.0 - 7.0.33, 7.1.0 - 7.1.33, 7.2.0 - 7.2.33, 7.3.0 - 7.3.33, 7.4.0 - 7.4.33, 8.0.0 - 8.0.30, 8.1.0 - 8.1.28, 8.2.0 - 8.2.18, 8.3.0 - 8.3.4, 8.3.6: format: 0, data: array ( 0 => 'Bob', 1 => '22', 2 => '105', 3 => '3905', 4 => '534', ) format: 1, data: array ( 0 => 'Dylan', 1 => 'General', ) format: 2, data: array ( 0 => 'Mary', 1 => 'gold', 2 => '19504', 3 => '8728', 4 => '18524', 5 => '78941', )
Output for 8.3.5: Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'sodium.so' (tried: /usr/lib/php/8.3.5/modules/sodium.so (libsodium.so.23: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory), /usr/lib/php/8.3.5/modules/sodium.so.so (/usr/lib/php/8.3.5/modules/sodium.so.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)) in Unknown on line 0 format: 0, data: array ( 0 => 'Bob', 1 => '22', 2 => '105', 3 => '3905', 4 => '534', ) format: 1, data: array ( 0 => 'Dylan', 1 => 'General', ) format: 2, data: array ( 0 => 'Mary', 1 => 'gold', 2 => '19504', 3 => '8728', 4 => '18524', 5 => '78941', )

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