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Wildhoney · 06-15-2008, 10:38 PM

You could probably do this with preg_split, if we were clever enough. However, I for one am not. There are a few on TalkPHP which I'm sure are. This would be my solution:

php Code:

$szString = "501,bleh,{ itemheal rand(45,65),0; },bleh,1,2,3,{ohh,1,2}";
print_r(picky_explode(',', $szString));

function picky_explode($szSplitBy, $szString)
{
    $bInBrackets = false;
    $aReturn = array();
    $aParts = explode($szSplitBy, $szString);
    
    foreach ($aParts as $szPart)
    {
        if (!$bInBrackets)
        {
            $aReturn[] = $szPart;
        }
        
        if (substr($szPart, 0, 1) == '{')
        {
            $bInBrackets = true;
            continue;
        }
        
        $aReturn[count($aReturn) - 1] .= $szSplitBy . $szPart;
        
        if (substr($szPart, -1, 1) == '}')
        {
            $bInBrackets = false;
        }
    }
    
    return $aReturn;
}