Question

Say I have the following email addresses comma separated in a string:

$addrList = '[e-mail], [e-mail], "Guice, Doug" <[e-mail]>';

I need the following result:

[0] => [e-mail]
[1] => [e-mail]
[2] => "Guice, Doug" <[e-mail]>

Seems fairly simple, but that comma in the quoted name really has thrown me in trying to find a solution using either preg_match_all or preg_split. Also we should accommodate for emails that use single quotes for names too, ie: 'smith, tom' <[e-mail]>

Answer 1

str_getcsv() should give you what you need, though it will strip the quotes.

EDIT

If you want to put the quotes back in:

$addrList = '[e-mail], [e-mail], "Guice, Doug" <[e-mail]>';


$t = str_getcsv($addrList);

foreach($t as $k => $v) {
    if (strpos($v,',') !== false) {
        $t[$k] = '"'.str_replace(' <','" <',$v);
    }
}

var_dump($t);