String to Array

[cuantica]

I need to convert an string in to array and have done this code

<?
$str = "\"Hola Feliz Mundo\" \"test\" 1.0 \"1 1/2\"";
$array_sucio = explode(" ", $str);
$array_limpio = array();
$i = 0;
foreach ($array_sucio as $c) {
if (substr($c, 0, 1) == "\"" or $flag){
if (!$flag) $c = substr($c, 1);
if (substr($c, -1, 1) == "\""){
$c = substr($c, 0, -1);
if ($flag){
$array_limpio[$i] .= " ". $c;
}else{
$array_limpio[$i] = $c;
}
$i++;
$flag = false;
}else{
if ($flag){
$array_limpio[$i] .= " ". $c;
}else{
$array_limpio[$i] = $c;
}
$flag = true;
}
}else{
$array_limpio[$i] = $c;
$i++;
}

}
print_r($array_limpio);
?>

How you will do it. 🙂

[drawmack]

couldn't you just use [man]str_replace[/man] to squash the " and then explode into an array?

[Shrike]

$matches = preg_match_all("/[\\w\\d\\.\\s\\/]+/si", $str, $match);
print_r($match);

Can't get the whitespace not to match though. Are there some sort of rules to this? 🙂

[cuantica]

no, that will destroy the first value

"Hello Happy World"

causing 3 values instead

Hello
Happy
World

[drawmack]

<?php
$str = "\"Hello Happy World\" \"test\" 1.0  \"1 1/2\"";
$seperators = array('" "','" ',' "');
$str = str_replace($seperators,'_',$str);
$ary = explode('_',$str);
for($i=0;$i<count($ary);$i++)
    $ary[$i] = str_replace('"','',$ary[$i]);

echo '<pre>';
print_r($ary);
echo '</pre>';
?>