Ignoring split between quotes

[vmattila]

Hi there,

I should split a string with a space as a delimeter but ingoring the space if it is in quotes. Any ideas how this kind of script could be done?

An example how the script should work:

$originalstring = "Word1 Word2 \"Word3 Word4\"";
// Now splitting $originalstring to an array $arrayx
// When printing the items of $arrayx...
echo $arrayx[0]; // Would output "Word1"
echo $arrayx[1]; // Would output "Word2"
echo $arrayx[2]; // Would output "Word3 Word4"

That's it. Hope that you got what I mean, it's a bit difficult to explain... 😉

Cheers,
- Ville

[tomhath]

You can do it with preg_split() by using a backreference or backtracking in the regular expression. More difficult to do than to explain but worth learning.