Re: help with explode()

2009/4/24 Adam Williams <awilliam@mdah.state.ms.us>: > > > Jan G.B. wrote: >> >> You could try it with regular expression matching.. >> for example: >> <?php >>    preg_match_all('/([a-z]+|"[a-z ]+")/i', $searchstring, >> $resultarray); >> ?> >> >> >> Regards >> > > Thanks.  That seems to create 2 duplicate arrays, though.  Can it be > narrowed down to just array [0]? > > preg_match_all('/([a-z]+|"[a-z ]+")/i', $_POST["terms"], > $termsarray); > echo $_POST["terms"]."<br>"; > print_r($termsarray); > > displays: > > John Jill "Judy Smith" > Array ( [0] => Array ( [0] => John [1] => Jill [2] => "Judy Smith" ) [1] > => > Array ( [0] => John [1] => Jill [2] => "Judy Smith" ) ) > Yes, preg_match_all returns all matches and the subpattern matches (the "stuff" inside the brakes) You can ommit stop it by using (?:) instead of ().. So: preg_match_all('/(?:[a-z]+|"[a-z ]+")/i', $_POST["terms"], $termsarray) You might want to check out the regular expression manuals on http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.pcre.php regards >