尝试以结构化格式从字符串中提取数据

Question

I'm trying to parse some data in PHP, but I'm not entirely sure what the data format is. It appears to be a variant of JSON, but I'm not sure.

Here's an example;

    "kFj394"
{
        "allow"
        {
        }
        "name"  "Bob"
        "deny"
        {
        }
        "group" "trusted"
}
"J883Dd"
{
        "name"  "Foo Bar"
        "deny"
        {
        }
        "allow"
        {
        }
        "group" "regular"
}

I'm trying to get the nickname and group of the person from their ID (kFj394 and J883Dd in this example)

If anyone knows how I could accomplish this, or even what data format this is, I'd appreciate the help. Thanks.

Answer 1

I don't know what your format is there. It's definitely not JSON. Regular expression is probably your only shot:

$block = ''; // The text you pasted goes here.

foreach (['kFj394', 'J883Dd'] as $id) {
    $nameSearchPattern = '/"' . $id . '"[
\t\s\w{}"]*?name"\s+"(.+)"/';
    $groupSearchPattern = '/"' . $id . '"[
\t\s\w{}"]*?group"\s+"(.+)"/';
    preg_match($nameSearchPattern, $block, $nameMatches);
    preg_match($groupSearchPattern, $block, $groupMatches);
    $name = $nameMatches[1];
    $group = $groupMatches[1];
    echo "The name for $id is $name
";
    echo "The group for $id is $group
";
}