Re: Re: Regex for extracting quoted strings

On 03/05/2011 04:38 PM, Mark Kelly wrote: > Hi. > > Thanks for all the replies. > > On Saturday 05 Mar 2011 at 22:11 Simon J Welsh wrote: > >> On 6/03/2011, at 11:08 AM, Shawn McKenzie wrote: >>> $regex = '/"([^"]+)"/'; > > Shawn, this regex gets me two copies of each string - one with and one without > the double quotes - as did the one Nathan posted earlier. > >> Also, you'll want preg_match_all rather than preg_match. > > Yeah, I realised that quite early on in my messing about. > > What I have ended up with is: > > $regex = '/".*?"/'; > $found = preg_match_all($regex, $sentence, $phrases); > > This still leaves the quotes in the phrases, but at least I only get one copy > of each phrase. I'm just trimming the quotes afterwards. > > Thanks for all the advice. > > Mark $sentence = 'Dave said "This is it". "Nope, that is the wrong colour" she replied.'; $regex = '/"([^"]+)"/'; preg_match_all($regex, $sentence, $phrases); print_r($phrases[1]); -- Thanks! -Shawn http://www.spidean.com