Question

How to explode a string with words in quotes in PHP

Answer 1

$s = "'PHP' \"HTML\" 'JavaScript' CSS";
 
preg_match_all('/"(?:\\\\.|[^\\\\"])*"|\S+/', $s, $arr);
    
foreach ($arr[0] as $word)
    echo $word . "<br />";
  
/*
run:
   
'PHP'
"HTML"
'JavaScript'
CSS
    
*/

 

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Answer 2

$s = "'PHP' \"HTML\" 'JavaScript' CSS";
 
$arr = str_getcsv($s, ' ');
    
foreach ($arr as $word)
    echo $word . "<br />";
  
/*
run:
   
'PHP'
HTML
'JavaScript'
CSS
    
*/

 

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