Complex regex question, data may or may not be in brackets
- by martinpetts
I need to extract data from a source that presents it in one of two ways. The data could be formatted like this:
Francis (Lab) 18,077 (60.05%); Waller (LD) 4,140 (13.75%); Evans (PC) 3,545 (11.78%); Rees-Mogg (C) 3,064 (10.18%); Wright (Veritas) 768 (2.55%); La Vey (Green) 510 (1.69%)
Or like this:
Lab 8,994 (33.00%); C 7,924 (29.07%); LD 5,197 (19.07%); PC 3,818 (14.01%); Others 517 (1.90%); Green 512 (1.88%); UKIP 296 (1.09%)
The data I need to extract is the percentage and the party (these are election results), which is either in brackets (first example) or is the only non-numeric text.
So far I have this:
preg_match('/(.*)\(([^)]*)%\)/', $value, $match);
Which is giving me the following matches (for first example):
Array
(
[0] => Francis (Lab) 18,077 (60.05%)
[1] => Francis (Lab) 18,077
[2] => 60.05
)
So I have the percentage, but I also need the party label, which may or may not be in brackets and may or may not be the only text. Can anyone help?
