Question

I have this string (it’s an apple .strings file):

/* this is a comment line; it may contain semicolons */
"you have here some text; also may contain semicolons" = "some other text;";

/* this is a comment line; it may contain semicolons */
"you have here some text; also may contain semicolons" = "some other text;";

and so on.

I need to split this string after the semicolons at the end of each non-commented line.

If I use explode(";\n", $string); may not be accurate as the line could end in a ;(whitespace)(new line)

Update:
The output should be an array. Each element should contain the commented line (if exists) and the quoted strings line.

Answer 1

If you’re only concerned about the optional whitespace, you might get along with

$array = preg_split("/;\s*\n/", $string); 

preg_split takes a regular expression while explode takes a string as delimiter.