String Parsing

[lucky_php]

Hi
I need help with String parsing.
I want to do string tokenizing with string enclosed in double quotes as 1 token.

String is entered in a text box.
If user enters
-->abc bcd def
Curently,I have white space as my delimiter giving me abc ,bcd,def tokens.
But i want to add -double quotes to override WS.
If user enters --> "abc bcd" def -> I shoud have 2 string tokens-
abc bcd
and def

how should i do that .

Thanks

[HalfaBee]

Maybe you need to parse it yourself.

something along the lines of this.

<?php
$s = '"ABC DEF" abc def';
$len = strlen( $s );
$inQuote = FALSE;
for( $i=0;$i<$len;$i++ ) {
    if( $s{$i}=='"' ) {
        if( $inQuote ) { // end of string
            $inQuote = FALSE;
        } else {
            $inQuote = TRUE;
        }
    } else {
        if( $s{$i} == ' ' AND !$inQuote ) {
            $bits[] = $newStr;
            $newStr = '';
        } else {
            $newStr .= $s{$i};
        }
    }
}
$bits[] = $newStr;
print_r( $bits );
?>