Posted by Chris Shiflett on 11/14/05 16:58

Ördögh László wrote:
> I would like to split or explode strings in a way that
> quoted strings inside the strings should remain.
> e.g.:
>
> "first second \"third third\" fourth \"fifth fifth fifth\""
>
> after the split I need:
>
> "first"
> "second"
> "third third"
> "fourth"
> "fifth fifth fifth"

I love explode(), too, but this is a job for sscanf():

http://php.net/sscanf

Hope that helps.

Chris

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