String Parsing Help Needed!

[glerma]

Anyone know how to help me out or maybe point me in the right direction with the following?

Here is what I am trying to do:
I want to be able to parse out a long delimited string.
Example: string1 |"abced", string2 "12345", string3 "blah"|

I want to be able to parse the strings only between the commas and put them into a Form Field Variable.
Example: "abced" goes into $fldField1, "12345" goes into $fldField2, "blah" goes into $fldField3

This whole problem stems from an Oracle CLOB column that holds data in it. The problem is that we need to parse out and chop up the data into individual columns.

Any body have any ideas? preg_match?, strstr?

Thanks.

[lentin64]

$str = "string1=abced;string2=12345;string3=blah";

parse_str($str);

just parse the string. if you make an array:

$str .= "string4[]=abcd;string4[]=hello";
parse_str($str);

$string4[1]; //output: abcd
$string4[2]; //output: hello