Ördögh László wrote:
I would like to split or explode strings in a way that quoted strings inside the strings should remain. e.g.: "first second \"third third\" fourth \"fifth fifth fifth\"" after the split I need: "first" "second" "third third" "fourth" "fifth fifth fifth"
I love explode(), too, but this is a job for sscanf(): http://php.net/sscanf Hope that helps. Chris -- Chris Shiflett Brain Bulb, The PHP Consultancy http://brainbulb.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php