php to extract a string from double quote

Question

I have a string:

This is a text, \"Your Balance left $0.10\", End 0

How can I extract the string in between the double quotes an

Answer 1

For everyone hunting for a full featured string parser, try this:

(?:(?:"(?:\\"|[^"])+")|(?:'(?:\\'|[^'])+'));

Use in preg_match:

$haystack = "something else before 'Lars\' Teststring in quotes' something else after";
preg_match("/(?:(?:\"(?:\\\\\"|[^\"])+\")|(?:'(?:\\\'|[^'])+'))/is",$haystack,$match);

Returns:

Array
(
    [0] => 'Lars\' Teststring in quotes'
)

This works with single and double quoted string fragments.