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explode string conditionally in php

I have a string with spaces as follows.

$name = 'name="shadow" msg="Your message"';

I want to explode the string such as to get name="shadow" and msg="Your message". But the message inside msg is also splitted

On exploding using whitespace i am not getting desired output

$code = explode(' ', $name);

I want to get 

$code[0] = 'name="shadow"'
$code[1] = 'msg="Your message"'

But i get this

$code[0] = 'name="shadow"'
$code[1] = 'msg="Your'
$code[3] = 'message"'
Solution

  • Use /(?<=\")\s/ regex in preg_split(). The regex select any space after " character

    $name = 'name="shadow" msg="Your message"';
$code = preg_split('/(?<=\")\s/', $name);

    Check result in demo