A shorter way to run a match on the array's keys rather than the values:
<?php
function preg_grep_keys($pattern, $input, $flags = 0) {
return array_intersect_key($input, array_flip(preg_grep($pattern, array_keys($input), $flags)));
}
?>
(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
preg_grep — Liefert Array-Elemente, die auf ein Suchmuster passen
$pattern
, array $array
, int $flags
= 0
) : array|false
Gibt ein Array zurück, das aus den Elementen des
array
-Arrays besteht, die auf das angegebene
Suchmuster pattern
passen.
pattern
Der Ausdruck, nach dem gesucht werden soll, als Zeichenkette
array
Das Eingabe-Array
flags
Falls auf PREG_GREP_INVERT
gesetzt, gibt die
Funktion die Elemente des Eingabe-Arrays zurück, die
nicht auf das angegebene Suchmuster
pattern
passen.
Gibt ein Array zurück, das mit den Schlüsseln des
array
-Arrays indiziert ist.
Beispiel #1 preg_grep()-Beispiel
<?php
// liefert alle Array-Elemente,
// die Fließkommazahlen enthalten
$fl_array = preg_grep("/^(\d+)?\.\d+$/", $array);
?>
A shorter way to run a match on the array's keys rather than the values:
<?php
function preg_grep_keys($pattern, $input, $flags = 0) {
return array_intersect_key($input, array_flip(preg_grep($pattern, array_keys($input), $flags)));
}
?>
Run a match on the array's keys rather than the values:
<?php
function preg_grep_keys( $pattern, $input, $flags = 0 )
{
$keys = preg_grep( $pattern, array_keys( $input ), $flags );
$vals = array();
foreach ( $keys as $key )
{
$vals[$key] = $input[$key];
}
return $vals;
}
?>
This may be obvious to most experienced developers,but just in case its not,when using preg_grep to check for whitelisted items ,one must be very careful to explicitly define the regex boundaries or it will fail
<?php
$whitelist = ["home","dashboard","profile","group"];
$possibleUserInputs = ["homd","hom","ashboard","settings","group"];
foreach($possibleUserInputs as $input)
{
if(preg_grep("/$input/i",$whitelist)
{
echo $input." whitelisted";
}else{
echo $input." flawed";
}
}
?>
This results in:
homd flawed
hom whitelisted
ashboard whitelisted
settings flawed
group whitelisted
I think this is because if boundaries are not explicitly defined,preg_grep looks for any instance of the substring in the whole array and returns true if found.This is not what we want,so boundaries must be defined.
<?php
foreach($possibleUserInputs as $input)
{
if(preg_grep("/^$input$/i",$whitelist)
{
echo $input." whitelisted";
}else{
echo $input." flawed";
}
}
?>
this results in:
homd flawed
hom flawed
ashboard flawed
settings flawed
group whitelisted
in_array() will also give the latter results but will require few tweaks if say,the search is to be case insensitive,which is always the case 70% of the time
An even shorter way to run a match on the array's keys rather than the values:
<?php
function preg_grep_keys($pattern, $input, $flags = 0) {
return array_flip( preg_grep($pattern, array_flip($input), $flags ) );
}
?>