regular expressions question

[fnbcprog]

How do I write the ereg and preg versions to find if any string is enclosed in quotes??

"real estate" -> match
real estate -> no match

Thanks for the help!!

[madwormer2]

Well, to match anything between quotes, it'd simply be

preg_match('/"(.*?)"/',$string,$result);

Although the alternative, and ultimately better version is:

preg_match('/"([^"]+)"/',$string,$result);

Although it could probably match TOO much if the quotes aren't paired correctly.

[bogu]

Try this one:

$str = "asdf sadf \"real estate\" sadf asdf real estate asdf sadf \"Real estate\"sadf asdf real estate";
preg_match_all("|\"real estate\"|i",$str,$tmp);
echo "<pre>",print_r($tmp,1),"</pre>";

[madwormer2]

I'm under the assumption that you want to find ANY words in quotes, as if you just wanted to find a specific string, you could just do [man]strpos/man

[fnbcprog]

Yes madwormer2! You are right and I am trying your solution right now!!! Thank you for the help!!