note 51802 added to function.explode

The function posted by tengel at fluid dot com didn't work for me -- it wouldn't compile. Here is the function I wrote to do the same thing. This function explodes a string, ignoring delimeters that appear inside double quotes. (Incidentally, it also removes double quotes from the exploded elements.) This correctly parses, for example, a line from a CSV file like this: 10, "abc", "ACME, Inc.", 50.25 It's slow, but it works. (How could this be faster?) function explode2($delimeter, $string) { for ($i = 0; $i < strlen($string); $i++) { if ($string{$i} == '"') { if ($insidequotes) $insidequotes = false; else $insidequotes = true; } elseif ($string{$i} == $delimeter) { if ($insidequotes) { $currentelement .= $string{$i}; } else { $returnarray[$elementcount++] = $currentelement; $currentelement = ''; } } else { $currentelement .= $string{$i}; } } $returnarray[$elementcount++] = $currentelement; return $returnarray; } ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.explode.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+51802 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51802&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51802&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51802&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51802&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51802&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+51802&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php