Parsing Variables

I would like to create a script that reads a file name that follows a
specific format and have it parsed into 2 variables. The format is as
follows:

cli_info-ACCOUNT-USERNAME.dat

The two variables that I would like to get out of this are the ACCOUNT and
USERNAME. The rest of the information can be discarded. I can get the
entire filename into a variable, but I am not sure how to parse it properly.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Jason

* Thus wrote Jason Williard (jason@jasondubya.com):
> I would like to create a script that reads a file name that follows a
> specific format and have it parsed into 2 variables. The format is as
> follows:
>
> cli_info-ACCOUNT-USERNAME.dat
>
> The two variables that I would like to get out of this are the ACCOUNT and
> USERNAME. The rest of the information can be discarded. I can get the
> entire filename into a variable, but I am not sure how to parse it properly.

One method would be to use the preg_split():

list($extra, $account, $username) =
split('/[-.]/', 'cli_info-ACCOUNT-USERNAME.dat', 3);

or a a preg_match():

preg_match('/cli_info-([^-]+)-([^.]+)\.dat/', $str, $matches);
$account = $matches[1];
$username = $matches[2];

This is assumint that account wont contain a '-' and username wont
contain a '.'.

HTH,

Curt
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