need a function

Hi
I have the list of all countries in this format:
""=>Armenia,
""=>Aruba,
""=>Australia,
""=>Austria,
""=>Azerbaijan,
""=>Bahamas,
""=>Bahrain,
""=>Bangladesh,
""=>Barbados,
I want to make it in the following format: (copy name between ""):
"Afghanistan"=>Afghanistan,
"Albania"=>Albania,
"Algeria"=>Albania,
"Andorra"=>Andorra,
"Angola"=>Angola,
"Anguilla"=>Anguilla,
"Antigua an d Barbuda"=>Antigua an d Barbuda,
"Argentina"=>Argentina,
As the number of countries are a lot, how can i write a function to do the job for me?
thanks for your help

 

Using JavaScript -- use the indexOf function to search between the ">" and "," ... save the results and concatenate the results to the front of the string replacing the ""=. Sorry just noticed this was the PHP forum--- use the strstr function instead of the Javascript indexOf function-- see php.net.

Q...

 

what u mean by "Albania"=>Albania' is making it an array that has key "Albania" and value Albania?

or u want it as a string.

And, You want the script to process the list of countries (that you have now) only when you need it : makeArray()

or

you want to process the list of countries that you have now and print it as an array so that you can paste in your file? : makeArray_for_copy()

kinda confusing sentences..

EDIT: anyway test it using these simple functions. i assume the country list you have is a string. If it is, just make is as a variable like what i did.

$lol = '""=>Armenia,
""=>Aruba,
""=>Australia,
""=>Austria,
""=>Azerbaijan,
""=>Bahamas,
""=>Bahrain,
""=>Bangladesh,
""=>Barbados,
';

function makeArray($theString) {
$lol = str_replace('""=>','',$theString);
$lol = str_replace("\r\n",'',$lol);
$lol = explode(',',$lol);
foreach($lol as $lolx) {
if (!empty($lolx)) {
$lol_db[$lolx] = $lolx;
}
}
return $lol_db;
}

function makeArray_for_copy($theString) {
$lol = str_replace('""=>','',$theString);
$lol = str_replace("\r\n",'',$lol);
$lol = explode(',',$lol);
foreach($lol as $lolx) {
if (!empty($lolx)) {
$lol_string .= '"'.$lolx.'" => \''.$lolx.'\',<br />';
}
}
return $lol_string;
}

print '<pre>';
print '<b>makeArray()</b><br />';
// test the makeArray
print_r (makeArray($lol));

print '<br /><br /><b>makeArray_for_copy()</b><br />';
// test the makeArray_for_copy
print makeArray_for_copy($lol);

print '</pre>';

PHP:

 

$list = '""=>Armenia,
""=>Aruba,
""=>Australia,
""=>Austria,
""=>Azerbaijan,
""=>Bahamas,
""=>Bahrain,
""=>Bangladesh,
""=>Barbados,
';
$pattern = '/""=>([^,]+),/';
$output = preg_replace($pattern,'"$1"=>$1,',$list);

PHP:

(it's a bit simpler than the above)

 

regex, nice one XD