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is there an easy way to split a string on SPACE except if that SPACE is
within QUOTES?

i.e. - $str = red green blue yellow "blue green" returns
[red,green,blue,yellow,blue green]

?
Jul 17 '05 #1
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Alexander Ross wrote:
is there an easy way to split a string on SPACE except if that SPACE is
within QUOTES?

i.e. - $str = red green blue yellow "blue green" returns
[red,green,blue,yellow,blue green]

?

preg_split() should do it...
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-split.php
Jul 17 '05 #2

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