note 70237 deleted from function.strcspn by googleguy

Note Submitter: PHP at NospamImmortalSoFar dot com ---- Also useful for breaking down expressions - for example parsing SQL: values ('this', fn("that,)()", 4)) $sep = strcspn ($list, "'\"`"); // Start of quoted string $list = substr ($list, $sep); $find = substr ($list, 0, 1); while (($sep = strpos ($list, $find, $sep+1)) > 0 && substr ($list, $sep-1, 1) == '\\') {} // $sep now spans the entire string, regardless of embedded quotes Once the strings have been removed, an expression can then be parsed for commas and brackets without worrying about them: while ($out != '') { $sep = strcspn ($list, "(),"); // Next seperator ... }