Re: extract escaped quoted strings

On Sat, 2008-03-29 at 19:16 -0400, Adam Jacob Muller wrote: > Hi, > Have a potentially interesting question here, wondering if anyone has > done this one before and could shed some light for me. > I have a bit of PHP code that needs to extract some quoted strings, > so, very simply: > "hello" > perfectly fine and works great > but, it should also be able to extract > "hel\"lo" > bit more complex now > > Ideally, it would also handle > "hel\\"lo" > properly > > it should also handle > "hel\\\"lo" > > > Any ideason how to do this? attempts to write a PCRE to do this are so- > far unsuccessful, i'm sure I could badger some PHP code into doing it > perhaps, but i'd love some elegant PCRE solution that thus-far evades > me :( > > > Any ideas are appreciated. Extract quoted strings from what? The source makes a huge difference on the complexity required to extract the strings. Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP