在捕获单词索引时获取括号外的所有文本

Question

How can I get all text that's not in parenthesis using preg_match_all? The reason I need to use preg_match_all is because I want to get the index of each word.

Given sentence:

Hello how [t- are] you [t- today], Sir?

I can extract all the words inside the ( ), which works. How can I also get all text outside the ( ) separately?

preg_match_all('/\[t-(.*?)\]/', $this->target, $targetWords, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE);

Output:

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [0] =>  are
            [1] => 47
        ),
    [0] => Array
        (
            [0] =>  today
            [1] => some number
        )

)

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Note: I already know about preg_split:

$outsideParenthesis = preg_split('/\[.*?\]/', $this->target);

But this doesn't allow me to maintain the index.

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Note 2: It may help to provide my end goal:

I want to take a string of custom markdown. For each word, I want to generate word objects that specify their type and content.

The reason is, I'd like to send an array of word objects in order to the frontend so I can loop through the array and generate HTML elements with classes, so I can apply styling as needed.

And I want to be able to specify any markdown within, e.g.,

Hello how [t- are] you [k- today], Sir?

Where t- is target, k- is key.

So the final array I'd like would look like:

[
   [
      type => 'normal'
      content => 'Hello how '
   ],
   [
      type => 'target'
      content => 'are'
   ],
   [
      type => 'normal'
      content => ' you'
   ]
   [
      type => 'key'
      content => 'today'
   ]
   [
      type => 'normal'
      content => ', Sir?'
   ]
]

Here's my wordObjects function as of now:

private function setWordObjects($array, $type)
{
    return array_map(function ($n) use ($type) {
        return [
            'type' => $type,
            'content' => $n[0],
            'index' => $n[1]
        ];
    }, $array[1]);
}

Answer 1

Extended solution:

$s = 'Hello how [t- are] you [k- today], Sir?';
$types = ['t-' => 'target', 'k-' => 'key'];
$splitted = preg_split('/\[([tk]- [^]]+)\]/', $s, -1, PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE | PREG_SPLIT_OFFSET_CAPTURE);

$result = [];
foreach ($splitted as $v) {
    [$content, $pos] = $v;
    $k = substr($content, 0, 2);
    $is_delim = isset($types[$k]);
    $result[] = array_combine(['type', 'content', 'index'],
                              [$is_delim? $types[$k] : 'normal',
                              $is_delim? substr($content, 3) : $content,
                              $is_delim? $pos + 3 : $pos]);
}

print_r($result);

The output:

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [type] => normal
            [content] => Hello how 
            [index] => 0
        )

    [1] => Array
        (
            [type] => target
            [content] => are
            [index] => 14
        )

    [2] => Array
        (
            [type] => normal
            [content] =>  you 
            [index] => 18
        )

    [3] => Array
        (
            [type] => key
            [content] => today
            [index] => 27
        )

    [4] => Array
        (
            [type] => normal
            [content] => , Sir?
            [index] => 33
        )
)