2009/4/24 Adam Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> I have a form where users submit search terms and it explodes the terms into
> an array based upon spaces. But, how can I have explode() keep words in
> quotation marks together? For example, if someone enters on the form:
>
> John Jill "Judy Smith"
>
> and I run $termsarray = explode(" ", $_POST["terms"]);
>
> it explodes into:
>
> Array ( [0] => John [1] => Jill [2] => "Judy [3] => Smith" )
>
> but I'd like it to explode into:
>
> Array ( [0] => John [1] => Jill [2] => "Judy Smith" )
>
You could try it with regular expression matching..
for example:
<?php
preg_match_all('/([a-z]+|"[a-z ]+")/i', $searchstring, $resultarray);
?>
Regards
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