replace characters(seperators) within quotes

speedster — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:15:56 GMT

Hi I am debugging a pear package (File_CSV).

At some point for a line all seperators within quotes need to be replaced with an underscore.

The code that is being used right now:

$orgLine = '1001;"test1";"semicolon ; in this string" ';

$line = preg_replace("|^[^"\';]*;*(["\'][^"\']*["\'])|sm", '_', $orgLine);

It is faulty.

I guess the tricky part is within quotes is valid only if lefthand quote-position= oneven and righthand quote-position=even , otherwise the semicolon is used as a seperator.

Anyone any suggestiones?

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replace characters(seperators) within quotes