Strings and Reg Expressions

[wrgill999]

hi.

i have a comma separated list that i need to get into an array.

normally, the split function works great.

but, some of my values are "Sacramento, CA" where the entire value in the quotes needs to be a single array, so it can't split the entries in quotes.

i can remove the comma before splitting if i can figure out a regular expression to do this.

any help?

thanks.

[wrgill999]

i figured it out myself...so for anybody who cares:

while (ereg('"',$test,$match)) {
ereg('([^{"])"(["])"(.*)',$test,$match);}
$match[2]=ereg_replace(",","",$match[2]);
$test=$match[1].$match[2].$match[3];
echo $test . "<br>";//shows output
}