Arpad Ray

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• Latest snippets

  • Splitting a string into quoted and unquoted sections
  • Function to readable
  • Linear to nested array
  • Removing duplicate characters
  • Random string

<?php
$str = 'unquoted section "quoted" and unquoted
    "another quoted \"with a subquote\" section" more unquoted';
preg_match_all('/"(?:\\\\.|[^"])*"|[^"]+/', $str, $m);
print_r($m);
?>

Output

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [0] => unquoted section
            [1] => "quoted"
            [2] =>  and unquoted
            [3] => "another quoted \"with a subquote\" section"
            [4] =>  more unquoted
        )

)

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