I have read many posts on SO about preg_matching Bible verses but none of them seems to meet my requirement. I am trying to match the following verses with dot all in one preg_match and retrieve the book name the chapter and the verse.
Hebrews 11.6
2 Chronicles 10.16
Romans 13.13
2 Kings 5.10
3 John 1.5
The verses above should respectfully output
I did
if (preg_match('/[ ]{0,}([0-9]{1}[ ]{0,}[a-zA-ZàâäæáãåāèéêëęėēîïīįíìôōøõóòöœùûüūúÿçćčńñÀÂÄÆÁÃÅĀÈÉÊËĘĖĒÎÏĪĮÍÌÔŌØÕÓÒÖŒÙÛÜŪÚŸÇĆČŃÑ]*)[ ]{0,}([0-9]{1,3})[ ]{0,}:[ ]{0,}([0-9]{1,3})[ ]{0,}/', $bible_passage, $ourmatches))
{
$book = $ourmatches[1];
$chapter = $ourmatches[2];
$verse = $ourmatches[3];
echo "Book $book chapter $chapter verse $verse ";
}
This is able to match those verses but not able to retrieve each book separately with the verse. I want to get the following result
Book Hebrews Chapter 11 verse 6
Book 2 Chronicles Chapter 10 verse 16
Book Romans Chapter 13 verse 13
Book 2 Kings Chapter 5 verse 10
Book 3 John Chapter 1 verse 5
For Hebrews 11.6 what I get is Book 1 Chapter 1 verse 6 instead of Book Hebrews Chapter 1 verse 6
Please how to fix this?
CodePudding user response：
This probably is what you are looking for:
<?php
$data = [
"Hebrews 11.6",
"2 Chronicles 10.16",
"Romans 13.13",
"2 Kings 5.10",
"3 John 1.5",
];
array_walk($data, function($entry) {
preg_match('/(?:(\d )\s )?(\w )\s (\d )\.(\d )/', $entry, $capture);
list($volume, $book, $chapter, $verse) = array_slice($capture, 1);
echo "Book $book " . ($volume ? "Volume $volume " : "") . "chapter $chapter verse $verse\n";
});
The output is:
Book Hebrews chapter 11 verse 6
Book Chronicles Volume 2 chapter 10 verse 16
Book Romans chapter 13 verse 13
Book Kings Volume 2 chapter 5 verse 10
Book John Volume 3 chapter 1 verse 5
CodePudding user response：
You can use
<?php
$text = 'Hebrews 11.6
2 Chronicles 10.16
Romans 13.13
2 Kings 5.10
3 John 1.5';
if (preg_match_all('~^(.*?)\h*(\d )\.(\d )$~m', $text, $ms, PREG_SET_ORDER, 0)) {
foreach ($ms as $m) {
$book=$m[1];
$chapter=$m[2];
$verse=$m[3];
echo "Book $book chapter $chapter verse $verse\n";
}
}
See the PHP demo, and the regex demo.
Output:
Book Hebrews chapter 11 verse 6
Book 2 Chronicles chapter 10 verse 16
Book Romans chapter 13 verse 13
Book 2 Kings chapter 5 verse 10
Book 3 John chapter 1 verse 5
Regex details:
^- start of a line (due tomflag)(.*?)- any text, as short as possible\h*- zero or more horizontal whites[ace(\d )- Group 2: one or more digits\.- a dot(\d )- Group 3: one or more digits$- end of string.