PHP: How can I explode a string by commas, but not wheres the commas are within quotes?
Since you are using comma seperated values, you can use str_getcsv
.
str_getcsv($line, ",", "'");
Will return:
Array
(
[0] => TRUE
[1] => 59
[2] => A large number is 10,000
)
It seems you do not want to split your string by commas, but by the succession of quote+comma+quote ?
If so, the preg_split
function might help, here.
For example, using this portion of code :
$line = "'TRUE','59','A large number is 10,000'";
$parts = preg_split("/','/", $line);
var_dump($parts);
I get the following output :
array
0 => string ''TRUE' (length=5)
1 => string '59' (length=2)
2 => string 'A large number is 10,000'' (length=25)
Starting with that, it's now a matter of removing the first and last quotes of the $line
string, before calling preg_split
-- as those are delimiters, and don't match the splitting pattern.