Question

I’m trying to explode a string with commas, but in the string are some commas I don’t want to get explode, those commas are between " " like: "hey, how are you". I tried multiple things like exploding the " first. So how can I do this?

For example i have this string:

hey,how,are,"yo how,are you?",i'm,good

So the output will be:

array (
    0 => hey,
    1 => how,
    2 => are,
    3 => "you how, are you?",
    4 => i'm,
    5 => good
);

I tried to explode first on " that but I have no idea how.

Answer 1

Use str_getcsv() for PHP >= 5.3:

var_dump( str_getcsv( 'hey,how,are,"yo how,are you?"'));

This prints:

array(4) { [0]=> string(3) "hey" [1]=> string(3) "how" [2]=> string(3) "are" [3]=> string(15) "yo how,are you?" }