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copied!<p>I have a php script which I am using to parse some plain text to a CSV format.</p> <pre><code><?php $text = "1. Bonus: Name some things about US history. For 10 points each: [10] Name the first president of the United States of America. ANSWER: George Washington [10] How many original colonies were there? ANSWER: 13 [10] How many states exist today? ANSWER: 50"; function text_to_csv( $text = null ) { $lines = explode( "\n", $text ); $data = array(); $temp = array(); foreach( $lines as $line ) { $line = trim( $line ); if ( empty( $line ) ) { continue; } if ( preg_match( '/^\[10\](.+?)$/', $line, $quest ) ) { $temp[] = trim( $quest[0] ); continue; } if ( preg_match( '/^([0-9]+)\.(.+?)$/', $line, $quest ) ) { $temp[] = trim( $quest[1] ); $temp[] = trim( $quest[2] ); continue; } if ( preg_match( '/^ANSWER\:(.+?)$/', $line, $quest ) ) { $temp[] = trim( $quest[1] ); $data[] = "|".implode( '|,|', $temp )."|"; $temp = array(); } } return implode( "\r\n", $data ); } echo text_to_csv( $text ); ?> </code></pre> <p>This returns:</p> <pre><code>|1|,|Bonus: Name some things about US history. For 10 points each:|,|[10] Name the first president of the United States of America.|,|George Washington| |[10] How many original colonies were there?|,|13| |[10] How many states exist today?|,|50| </code></pre> <p>The second and third [10] are on separate lines and do not coincide with the first. What I would like the output to be is:</p> <pre><code>|1|,|Bonus: Name some things about US history. For 10 points each:|,|[10] Name the first president of the United States of America.|,|George Washington|,|[10] How many original colonies were there?|,|13|,|[10] How many states exist today?|,|50| </code></pre> <p>The entire string is all on one line and separated by commas. I think what is happening is the script is treating the second and third [10] as new entries rather than connected to the previous array. Can anybody help me fix this. It would be greatly appreciated!</p>

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