parse search string for phrases and keywords

Question

i need to parse a search string for keywords and phrases in php, for example

string 1: value of \"measured response\" detect goal \"method valuation\" study

Answer 1

There is no need to use a regular expression, the built in function str_getcsv can be used to explode a string with any given delimiter, enclosure and escape characters.

Really it is as simple as.

// where $string is the string to parse
$array = str_getcsv($string, ' ', '"');