Posted by Philip Hallstrom on 05/10/05 21:51

On Wed, 11 May 2005, Murray @ PlanetThoughtful wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I'd very much appreciate some help building a regular expression for
> preg_match_all that can differentiate between 'words' and 'phrases'.
>
> For example, say I have a string that contains: 'this is an "example of a
> phrase"'
>
> I'd like to be able to break that down to:
>
> this
>
> is
>
> an
>
> example of a phrase
>

I haven't thought this through fully, but what if you exploded the string
on " into an array. Then loop through the array and for every even
element, explode on a space, otherwise just store the whole string into
the new array.

-philip

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