seaching string for something

[quicknb]

I want to search a string for quotation marks ("") and then to assign the contents between the quotation marks to a variable. How can this be done?

[pjleonhardt]

preg_match()

Example:

$string = ' This is a "lovely" day. ';

preg_match("/\"(.*)\"/",$string, $match);
$word = $match[0]; 

Note: the above is rough. Not sure if it would work or not, but you should get the general idea.