On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 16:08 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: --snip-- > For instance I want the parse this string > > Form = 'This is a bad bad thing, but not as bad as it would be if \"x = 5\", > so thats it',Connection=5 > > Into the strings > > Form > > = > > 'This is a bad bad thing, but not as bad as it would be if \"x=5\", so thats > it' > > , > > Connection > > = > > 5 > > using the php preg_split() finction. So, I first want to find a regex that > finds the commas I have split out (bit not the common in the quoted string, > and then for each substring put that through another version of preg_split() > which finds the = as delimeters. Again in the quoted string, I want to > ignore the x=5 equal sign.
Something like this should do the trick:
/('.*?')*?,('.*?')*/
If you KNOW that the commas are going to be before or after the quoted
string, then the above could be simplified a bit.
Disclaimer: The above is written from the top of my head. I don't have a
chance to test it at the moment so YMMV.
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