note 88963 deleted from function.preg-match-all by danbrown

Note Submitter: jake at i12 dot com ---- I've been using the following to extract the attributes from a tag ... <?php //initiatlise test tag $tag='<input type = "checkbox" checked space="ok with spaces">'; //generate key=>value array with first item as tag name preg_match_all('/(\w+)(?:\s*=\s*"([^"]+)"|)/', $tag, $result); $attributes=array_combine($result[1],$result[2]); //output attribute array echo '<pre>'.print_r($attributes,true).'</pre>'; ?> The above example produces the following array: Array ( [input] => [type] => checkbox [checked] => [space] => ok with spaces) where the first item is the tag name and rest are the attribues and value. It can't cope without quotes so if anyone can make a concise suggestion it would be very helpfull! i.e. name=test or [color=blue doesn't work but name="test" and [color="blue" does work.