Capture repeating group with RegEx - regex

Question

I am trying to parse an input line looking like this:
AC#10,N850FD,10%,WEEK,IFR,1/22:45,2/00:58,390,F,0743,KEWR,3/02:30,3/05:04,380,F,1202,KMEM,3/11:15,3/20:04,350,F,0038,LFPG,4/04:00,4/15:35,330,F,5342,ZGGG,4/19:05,4/22:50,370,F,5608,RJAA,5/13:25,5/14:45,300,F,0060,RJBB,5/18:05,6/06:35,330,F,0060,KMEM,6/20:45,0/05:42,340,F,0948,PHNL,0/07:21,0/12:24,370,F,0802,KLAX,0/14:49,0/18:09,370,F,0806,KMEM
The first 5 "fields" are the "header" ("AC#10,N850FD,10%,WEEK,IFR"), and the rest is are repeating groups of 6 "fields" (e.g. "1/22:45,2/00:58,390,F,0743,KEWR").
I'm a RegEx newbie, but to do this I have come up with the following RegEx statement: (AC#)(\d+),([a-zA-Z0-9]+),(\d+%),(WEEK|DAY),(IFR|VFR)(,\d\/\d{2}:\d{2},\d\/\d{2}:\d{2},\d+,[FR],\d+,[A-Z0-9]{3,5})+.
The result of the first many groups (each "field" in the "header") are extracted fine, and I can easily access each value (group). However my problem is the following/repeating groups. Only the last of the repeating "groups" are extracted. If I remove the very last "+" only the first of the repeating "groups" are extracted (naturally).
Example here: https://regex101.com/r/HsQMge/1
Here is the result I hope to get (as groups):
AC#
10
N850FD
10%
WEEK
IFR
,1/22:45,2/00:58,390,F,0743,KEWR
,3/02:30,3/05:04,380,F,1202,KMEM
,3/11:15,3/20:04,350,F,0038,LFPG
,4/04:00,4/15:35,330,F,5342,ZGGG
,4/19:05,4/22:50,370,F,5608,RJAA
,5/13:25,5/14:45,300,F,0060,RJBB
,5/18:05,6/06:35,330,F,0060,KMEM
,6/20:45,0/05:42,340,F,0948,PHNL
,0/07:21,0/12:24,370,F,0802,KLAX
,0/14:49,0/18:09,370,F,0806,KMEM

Answer 1

Probably RegEx is not the right tool to do this task. Maybe you can use it just for splitting string into array. Rest job is for array_chunk :
$str = "AC#10,N850FD,10%,WEEK,IFR,1/22:45,2/00:58,390,F,0743,KEWR,3/02:30,3/05:04,380,F,1202,KMEM,3/11:15,3/20:04,350,F,0038,LFPG,4/04:00,4/15:35,330,F,5342,ZGGG,4/19:05,4/22:50,370,F,5608,RJAA,5/13:25,5/14:45,300,F,0060,RJBB,5/18:05,6/06:35,330,F,0060,KMEM,6/20:45,0/05:42,340,F,0948,PHNL,0/07:21,0/12:24,370,F,0802,KLAX,0/14:49,0/18:09,370,F,0806,KMEM";
$data = preg_split('/[,#]/',$str);
$data = array_chunk($data, 6);
var_dump($data);
Try it online!

Answer 2

I can't get it to work with one regular expression (still think it should be possible), however I got it working in two passes. First I use the following RegEx, to split the individual fields of the "header" into groups, and then grab the rest of the input line as the last group (using "(.*)" after the last comma):
(AC#)(\d+),([a-zA-Z0-9]+),(\d+%),(WEEK|DAY),(IFR|VFR),(.*)
This leaves me with the rest of the information in one single group ("1/22:45,2/00:58,390,F,0743,KEWR,3/02:30,3/05:04,380,F,1202,KMEM,3/11:15,3/20:04,350,F,0038,LFPG,4/04:00,4/15:35,330,F,5342,ZGGG,4/19:05,4/22:50,370,F,5608,RJAA,5/13:25,5/14:45,300,F,0060,RJBB,5/18:05,6/06:35,330,F,0060,KMEM,6/20:45,0/05:42,340,F,0948,PHNL,0/07:21,0/12:24,370,F,0802,KLAX,0/14:49,0/18:09,370,F,0806,KMEM"). I then parse this group with another regular expression, that groups the repeating sections (without a problem - now there is no longer a "header"):
(\d\/\d{2}:\d{2},\d\/\d{2}:\d{2},\d+,[FR],\d+,[A-Z0-9]{3,4})+
The groups are as I had hoped (even better as "," is no longer part of the result). Odd its no working with the "header". Anyhow I don't have to resort to "manually" splitting the line, and the RegEx statements can still "validate" each section.