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Extracting data from a line - php

This lines is from a log file. It logs the http requests it gets for every file it has and produce this log file. Is there a way to break this file to an array, an assoc array ?

68.68.108.4 - - [04/Jul/2010:20:14:18 +0000] "GET http://cd.dweb.com/hand.jpg HTTP/1.1" 200 4184 "http://sdpics.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/6.0.453.1 Safari/534.2"

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ip => 68.68.108.4,
date => 04/Jul/2010:20:14:18
url => http://cd.dweb.com/hand.jpg
browser => Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/6.0.453.1 Safari/534.2

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sahanz

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whoa, i thought it'd be a regex solution

sahanz

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Working perfect, next time i'll try to do like this.

Ray Paseur

I often find that it takes longer to debug REGEX solutions than it does to write simpler code. Nothing wrong with REGEX, but a language made up of nothing but punctuation is very hard to get right. Going forward, you might want to package this code into a function. You feed the function a string and it returns the array. Then in your mainline code, all you would need to write is a single line, something like:

$arr = parse_my_log_text($txt);

Thanks for the points and best of luck with the project, ~Ray

sahanz

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Yes, I learn new stuff but wasn't able go near regex even if I tried few times, thanks for the tip.

Ray Paseur

Ha! I know what you mean. There are entire books devoted to REGEX.