RE: [PHP] RegExp for preg_split()

Thanks, But this example seems to be short and does the job : <?php $String='this is a "test expression" for search input'; $MyRegEx = '/"[^"]+"|[^"\s,]+/'; preg_match_all($MyRegEx, $String, $Tokens); ?> Unless I'm missing something? thanks -----Original Message----- From: Richard Lynch [mailto:ceo@l-i-e.com] Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 10:29 AM To: Weber Sites LTD Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] RegExp for preg_split() On Fri, April 28, 2006 11:16 am, Weber Sites LTD wrote: > I'm looking for the RegExp that will split a search string into search > keywords. > while taking " " into account. > > From what I managed to find I can get all of the words into an array > but I would like all of the words inside " " to be in the same array > cell. I'd be pretty surprised if searching for things like: PHP simple search input quotes and things like that didn't turn up some solutions... You might have to search in specific forums rather than a general Google, but. Here's one crude solution though: <?php $input = 'this is a "test expression" for search input'; //remove duplicate spaces: $input = preg_replace('/\\s+/', ' ', $input); //ignore leading/trailing blanks: $input = trim($input); $parts = explode('"', $input); $terms = array(); $in_quotes = false; foreach($parts as $expression){ $expression = trim($expression); //probably not needed... if (strlen($expression)){ if (!$in_quotes){ //individual words: $words = explode(' ', $expression); $terms = array_merge($terms, $words); } else{ //in quotes, so this is a search term: $terms[] = $expression; } } $in_quotes = !$in_quotes; } var_dump($terms); ?> Note that invalid input such as unbalanced quote marks will mess this up big-time, probably... But maybe that's just as well... -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php