Split by spaces but not when phrase is inside quotes

TRiG · 02:04 PM

Handy for creating a search query.

There's a suggested answer on the messageboard, but I think this is cleaner.

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$phrases = explode('"', $q);

foreach ($phrases as $k => $v) {

        if (!$v) continue;

        if ($k % 2) {

            $filters[] = $v;

            continue;

        }

        $a = explode(' ', $v);

        foreach ($a as $word) {

            if (!$word) continue;

            $filters[] = $word;

        }

}

print_r($filters);

exit;

Atli

Hey.

You could also try a regular expression:

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 <?php

$regex = '/"[^"]+"|[^"\s]+/i';

if(preg_match_all($regex, $q, $matches)) {

    print_r($matches[0]);

}

else {

    echo "Empty query";

}

?>

Should be a bit faster, I'd guess.

Split by spaces but not when phrase is inside quotes

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