Because the substrings can contain any char-s including
commas. Also I use reg exp not for splitting only but
for validating whether whole string and the substrings
are correctly formatted. Using reg exp requires much less
coding than traditional programming.

>
> Why not just strip out the braces and explode on commas?  That'll be
> lighter than regexps any day.  If the input is guaranteed to be
> formatted the way you describe, you could do something like:
>
>   $out = explode(",", substr($in, 1, strlen($in)-2));
>
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