string search in text file

[devjan]

Is there any way I can find out string start with " and end with "

example
This is just test file and we are searching for "first and last name"

Here, I want to find out "first and last name"

Thanks for your reply

Dev

[diego25]

You could do an explode() on '"', and the odd items of the returned array will be the strings in quotes.

Diego

[Mordecai]

That would be a great method, but a bit messy. I'd say that's the best way to start off. Then, run through a loop that cleans up the array (erases the even parts):

$stringArray = explode("\"",$string); // Split it into an array
for ($i = 0; $i < count($stringArray); $i++) { // Go through each array key
  if ($i % 2 != 0) { // Use the mod operator to find if it's even
    // It's an odd number, so we know it's in a quote.
    $quoteArray[] = $stringArray[$i]; // Add to the quote array
  }
}
unset($stringArray); // Get rid of $stringArray, it's wasting memory

However, if it starts with a quote, this might not work...

[BigToach]

or you can use regex.
preg_match_all('/\"(.+?)\"/ims',$str,$matches);
$matches will return an associative array.
$matches[0] is the array with the quotes on the strings
example: "haha"
$matches[1] is the array with just the text between the quotes
example: haha