Hello just looking for some help as I've gotten stuck
I have two Strings:
C:\Users\Bob\My Documents
/Users/Bob/Documents
That gets put through
preg_split('/(?<=[\/\\\])(?![\/\\\])/', $string)
that returns
Array
(
[0] => C:\
[1] => Users\
[2] => Bob\
[3] => My Documents
)
Array
(
[0] => /
[1] => Users/
[2] => Bob/
[3] => Documents
)
I need
Array
(
[C:\] => Array
(
[Users] => Array
(
[Bob] => Array
(
[My Documents] => array()
)
)
)
)
Array
(
[/] => Array
(
[Users] => Array
(
[Bob] => Array
(
[Documents] => array()
)
)
)
)
And ultimately merged to
Array
(
[C:\] => Array
(
[Users] => Array
(
[Bob] => Array
(
[My Documents] => array()
)
)
)
[/] => Array
(
[Users] => Array
(
[Bob] => Array
(
[Documents] => array()
)
)
)
)
(properly merged, not just appended, so if another string started with C:\Users\Dan Then dan would appear on the ?3rd? Dimension. array_merge_recursive() ? )
Just take the arrays returned by preg_split() and build your tree structure out of them:
$tree = array();
foreach ( $strings as $string ) {
$path = preg_split( '/(?<=[\/\\\])(?![\/\\\])/', $string );
$ptr =& $tree;
foreach ( $path as $elem ) {
if ( ! array_key_exists( $elem, $ptr ) )
$ptr[ $elem ] = array();
$ptr =& $ptr[ $elem ];
}
}
You're probably best off just using pathinfo()
http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.pathinfo.php
And realpath() http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.realpath.php
I assume you're trying to map a *nix directory to a Windows one?