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Parse a querystring

Is there a way to parse this querystring?

$output = 'Country=UNITED STATES (US) &City=Scottsdale, AZ &Latitude=33.686 &Longitude=-111.87';

Ultimately, I want to isolate the latitude and longitude values in to separate variables, strtok() is not serving the purpose.

Solution

  • You don't need a regular expression for this; use explode() to split up the string, first by &, and then by =, which you can use to effectively parse it into a nice little array mapping names to values.