I've looked around for solutions close to this but have not been successful in finding a solution. I'm looking to clean up some legacy code via php_codesniffer but the fixer doesn't fix comments or arrays that go past 80 cols just lets you know about them. I have a solution that works for the comments but I am getting stuck on the regex for the arrays. A sample line I would like to fix is:
$line = "drupal_add_js(array('my_common' => array('my_code_validate' => variable_get('my_code_validate', FALSE), 'inner_index2 => 'inner_value2'), 'another_item' => 'another_value'), 'setting');";
$solution = preg_match('/array.*(\(.*?\))/', $line);
echo $solution;
I'd like
$solution = "'my_common' => array('my_code_validate' => variable_get('my_code_validate', FALSE), 'inner_index2 => 'inner_value2'), 'another_item' => 'another_value'";
but I am getting 1 instead. Notice that there is another array in there which is fairly common. I only want to capture the first array's values, and then I can split them up on separate lines from there. Ultimately I'd like to share my solutions to the php codesniffer project so bonus points for showing how to code a new fixer for squizlabs.
You may use
if (preg_match('~array(\(((?:[^()]++|(?1))*)\))~', $s, $matches)) {
echo $matches[2];
}
See this demo.
Details
array - a literal substring(\(((?:[^()]++|(?1))*)\)) - Group 1:
\(((?:[^()]++|(?1))*) - Group 2 (the required value):
(?:[^()]++|(?1))* - zero or more repetitions of 1+ chars other than ( and ) or the whole Group 1 pattern recursed\) - a ) char