Regex

/text/   Sensible a majuscules
/text/i   Insensible a majuscules

[^>] Any character except >
? lazy search (as small as possible)
:.+?: any amount of character between : and : (but at least one)
:.*?: any amount of character between : and : ("::" is ok)
:[^:]: should be the same

() Exports data to $match[1], second () to $match[2]
$match[0] is everything

preg_match_all('/\[(.*?) (.*?)\].*?: (.*?);.*?idle=(.*?)% user=(.*?)% system=(.*?)% iowait=(.*?)%/i', $text, $match);

for ($i = 0; $i < count($match[1]); $i ++)
{
 $file = "nagiossnap/" . $match[3][$i] . ".txt";
 file_put_contents($file, $match[1][$i] . "\t" . $match[2][$i]. "\t" . $match[4][$i]. "\t" . $match[5][$i] . "\t" . $match[6][$i] . "\t" . $match[7][$i] . "\n", FILE_APPEND | LOCK_EX);

 print $match[1][$i];
 print $match[2][$i];
 print $match[3][$i];
 print $match[4][$i];
 print $match[5][$i];
 print $match[6][$i];
 print $match[7][$i];

(...)

Example taken form here: http://esa.espai.de/Logica_client-logica