Question

The following code keeps giving me this error

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in …

?

   $query_string = 'this is a test... "this is in quotes" mmm..chicken burgers... yummm...';
   preg_match_all("/\".*\"|[^\s]*/",  ­ $query_string, $matches);
   echo "Matches:";
   foreach($matches[0] as $token) {
          echo $token . "<br />";
   }

it is from this web page

Answer 1

Have you looked at the line referred to in the Error Message you noted?
Have you looked at the lines preceding that line, to ensure that you have ended each line with the semi-colon “;”, that you have used the correct operators for joining variables “.”, etc.?

This sounds like a simple PHP Syntax error.

I just ran the following code on my XAMPP server with no error messages apparent:

<?php

$query_string = 'this is a test... "this is in quotes" mmm..chicken burgers... yummm...';
preg_match_all("/\".*\"|[^\s]*/", $query_string, $matches);
echo "Matches:";
foreach($matches[0] as $token) {
  echo $token . "<br />";
}