Parse Apache log in PHP using preg_match

Question

I need to save data in a table (for reporting, stats etc...) so a user can search by time, user agent etc. I have a script that runs every day that reads the Apache Log and

Answer 1

If you don't want to capture the double quotes, move them out of the capture groups.

 (\".*?\") 

Should become:

 \"(.*?)\"

As alternative you could just post-process the entries with trim($str, '"')