CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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vagiz
vagiz

Reputation: 311

need to explode tags to array in php language

I have my tags in line:

word1 word2 word3 "word4 word1" word4 "word7 word4" "word67 word56 word1" word7

need to get everything in array like:

word1
word2
word3
word4 word1
word4
word7 word4
word67 word56 word1
word7

need to do it with explode(" ",$input) and explode("\"",$input) combination, or something else, but i have no idea how..

Upvotes: 0

Views: 98

Answers (3)

MH2K9
MH2K9

Reputation: 12039

I suggest you to use preg_match_all(). An Example for you

$str = 'word1 word2 word3 "word4 word1" word4 "word7 word4" "word67 word56 word1" word7';
preg_match_all('/(word\d)|("([^"]*)")/', $str, $m);

print '<pre>';
print_r($m[0]);
print '</pre>';

Upvotes: 0

gabe3886
gabe3886

Reputation: 4265

If you don't want to go down the preg_split route, you could so explode(" \"", $input), and then go through that output, and where the array item doesn't have a trailing ", split that by space. Where it does have the trailing ", remove it.

It's not an elegant solution, but would work.

$round1 = explode(" \"", $input); // split based on the " at the start
$round2 = array();
foreach ($round1 as $word) {
    if (substr($word,-1) == "\"") {
        $round2[] = str_replace("\"","",$word); // get rid of the trailing "
    }
    else {
      // need to merge our existing array with the exploded array
      $round2 = array_merge($round2, explode(" ", $word);
    }
}

Upvotes: 0

Etienne
Etienne

Reputation: 655

I think the best way is to use str_getcsv

Example :

var_dump( str_getcsv('word1 word2 word3 "word4 word1" word4 "word7 word4" "word67 word56 word1" word7', ' ', '"'));

Upvotes: 3

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