Parsing string with php – preferably without regex engine

Hi, I’ve got a unique problem here – I’m very new to php and am trying to solve a problem where I need to parse the output of a few command line commands to be used in some code. I have this working, but there’s got to be a better solution.

Here’s a few example strings:
R1_testing_client: s(app1), v(1.0.0), e(dev_int), x(HA), z(APPUSERHA)
R1_testing_client: s(ny_app23), e(alpha), v(2.1), z(CUGATEWAY)
R1_testing_client: s(director), z(CUGATEWAY), e(beta2), v(3.1.4.a)

I need to parse out the s(*), v(*), e(*), x(*), z(*) values and store them as vars if they exist. everything to the left of the colon in R1_testing_client will always be the same, it’s only the values to the right of the colon that change. My solution is to split/trim my way to getting the contents of each value, but if the values come in out of order like they do above, it breaks my code. Any suggestions are appreciated.

Here’s what i have to get the s(*) value for example. As you can tell, if s(*) comes anywhere other than the first element, it breaks my code.

[CODE]
$splitDescr = explode(“:”, $description);
$splitDescr = explode(“,”, $splitDescr[1]);
$appname = substr(trim($splitDescr[0]), 2, -1);
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