Re: Parse search string a la Google (Regular expression?)

Benny Rasmussen wrote: > Hi, > > In my application I would like to offer a search interface like Google > and other popular search engines. The complication for me is to explode > the search string into proper array elements, like this: > > $search_str = "\"search for this sentence\" -NotForThisWord > ButDefinitelyForThisWord"; > > $array[0]: "search for this sentence" > $array[1]: "-NotForThisWord" > $array[2]: "ButDefinitelyForThisWord" > > I have tried to use regular expressions but my case seems to be a bit > more complicated for this (?). > > Does anybody have a code snippet, a class or something, that can help > me with this? > > Thanks in advance, > Joachim > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php Forwarding to php-general@lists.php.net, since this would be the appropriate list for the topic. php-dev@lists.php.net is for the development *of* PHP itself, not for developing *with* PHP. -- Sebastian Bergmann http://sebastian-bergmann.de/ http://phpOpenTracker.de/ Did I help you? Consider a gift: http://wishlist.sebastian-bergmann.de/