Regular Expression just one step away from what I need....

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Given the string 'foo''bar''glorp' (all quotes are single quotes)I had
hoped to find a regular expression using preg_match that would return an
array containing just those words without having to go through
additional gyrations, like exploding a string to get an array. I have
only had limited luck

$theString = "'foo''bar''glorp'";
preg_match( "/\'(.*)\'/", $theString, $matches);
print_r($matches);

Array
(
    [0] => 'foo''bar''glorp'
    [1] => foo''bar''glorp
)

Of course $matches[0] has the entire string and $matches[1] contains the
returned string minus the leading and trailing single quote. I can
explode $matches[1] to get what I want, but it is an extra step and I am
sure that I have done this before but cannot locate the code in
question. I would like the results to be

Array
(
    [0] => 'foo''bar''glorp'
    [1] => foo
    [2] => bar
    [3] => glorp
)

That way I can use the $matches array without having to create another
array to hold the values. I feel as if I am really close on the regex to
do this, but cannot seem to find (after much head scratching and teeth
gnashing) the proper solution.

Much thanks!

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