PHP: How can I explode a string by commas, but not wheres the commas are within quotes?

Question

I need to explode my string input into an array at the commas. However the string contains commas inside quotes.

Input:

$line = 'TRUE','59','A large number is 10,000';  $linearray = explode(",",$line); $linemysql = implode("','",$linearray); 

Returns $linemysql as:

'TRUE','59','A large number is 10','000' 

How can I go about accomplishing this, with the explode ignoring the commas inside the quote marks?

Answer 1

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 )