PHP Regex - comma delimited string, IGNORE comma between tags

Question

With this line in mind:

$somethingawesome = '<[return date("Y-m-d", strtotime("yesterday"));]>,<[return "cool!";]>,TRUE,foo';

How to get an array like this:

Array
(
[0] => <[return date("Y-m-d", strtotime("yesterday"));]>

[1] => <[return "cool!";]>

[2] => TRUE

[3] => foo
)

+3

richard 24 oct. At 4:12 am

2 answers

hwnd · Answer 1 · 2014-10-24T04:18:20+0000

Based on this line, you can use the following ...

$results = preg_split('/(?:<[^>]*>)?\K,/', $str);
print_r($results);

Output

Array
(
    [0] => <[return date("Y-m-d", strtotime("yesterday"));]>
    [1] => <[return "cool!";]>
    [2] => TRUE
    [3] => foo
)

Or, of course, you could match everything instead of using split.

preg_match_all('/<[^>]+>|[^><,]+/', $str, $matches);

vks · Answer 2 · 2014-10-24T04:17:56+0000

 ,(?=(?:[^\]\[]*\[[^\]]*\])*[^\]\[]*$)

Try it. Take a look at demo.Replace at \n

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