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[Ricardo-san]

I'm having a bit of a dilemma extracting data from a variable...
So basically. First I'm echoing a variable, then I'm getting a something like this:

+===================================+

| New Account Info                  |

+===================================+

| Domain: auobui.com

| Ip: 174.132.240.50 (n)

| HasCgi: y

| UserName: iub2

| PassWord: teqy%ugana%u

| CpanelMod: x3

| HomeRoot: /home

| Quota: 500 Meg

| NameServer1: ns1.kh3.us

| NameServer2: ns2.kh3.us

| NameServer3: 

| NameServer4: 

| Contact Email: auib@uibfib.com

| Package: kh3us_KH1

| Feature List: default

| Language: english

+===================================+

However! In the browser it shows up like:

+===================================+ | New Account Info | +===================================+ | Domain: auobui.com | Ip: 174.132.240.50 (n) | HasCgi: y | UserName: iub2 | PassWord: teqy%ugana%u | CpanelMod: x3 | HomeRoot: /home | Quota: 500 Meg | NameServer1: ns1.kh3.us | NameServer2: ns2.kh3.us | NameServer3: | NameServer4: | Contact Email: auib@uibfib.com | Package: kh3us_KH1 | Feature List: default | Language: english +===================================+

And is very difficult to read...the problem is, the data is all stored in one variable, not an array, so I can't pull out bits of data and format. I'm thinking maybe I can use preg_match to lookup "Username:" and then store the consequential data (in this case, iub2) in a variable so I can use it in my script...
Any ideas how I would get this done?

[amrosama]

hmm, theres a workaround it
you can split that variable using "|" sign as seperator, and ignore the first two indexes

[WingedPanther]

I'd do a preg replace: "^(.*)$" replaced with "$1<br />"

[John]

you might be able to use nl2br($variable) depending on how the data is actually formatted. Some things like to use \n to format data which doesn't get parsed by the browser. nl2br will replace the line feeds with a <br />

[Ricardo-san]

*sigh*
And to think I spent so long trying to find a solution...when the answer is not in PHP, but HTML.
Thanks for all the answers guys, I got it working.

[John]

How did you end up fixing it?