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Useful to extract variables from a filename following a naming convention or parsing values from a SQL string.

Adapted from botman's way of hearing commands.

Installation

Using Composer:

composer require peterviergutz/pattern

Example usages

<?php
 use Pattern\Pattern;
 
 $pattern = new Pattern('{path}/{name}_{startDate}-{endDate}.{extension}');
 $variables = $pattern->parse('/path/to/file/update_XY_example.com_20180917-20180923.csv');

Array
(
    [path] => /path/to/file
    [name] => update_XY_example.com
    [startDate] => 20180917
    [endDate] => 20180923
    [extension] => csv
)

<?php
 use Pattern\Pattern;
 
 $pattern = new Pattern('SELECT {columns} FROM {table} LIMIT {limit}');
 $variables = $pattern->parse('select foo from bar limit 42');

Array
(
    [columns] => foo
    [table] => bar
    [limit] => 42
)