<?php

/*
* @version V1.01 16 June 2004 (c) Petar Nedyalkov (bu@orbitel.bg). All rights reserved.
* Released under the GPL license.
*/

function fgetcsvfromline ($line, $columnCount, $delimiterChar = ',', $enclosureChar = '"') {
    $regExpSpecialChars = array (
        "|" => "\\|",
        "&" => "\\&",
        "$" => "\\$",
        "(" => "\\(",
        ")" => "\\)",
        "^" => "\\^",
        "[" => "\\[",
        "]" => "\\]",
        "{" => "\\{",
        "}" => "\\}",
        "." => "\\.",
        "*" => "\\*",
        "\\" => "\\\\",
        "/" => "\\/"
    );

    $matches = array();

    $delimiterChar = strtr($delimiterChar, $regExpSpecialChars);
    $enclosureChar = strtr($enclosureChar, $regExpSpecialChars);

    $regExp = "/^";

    for ($i = 0; $i < $columnCount; $i++) {
        $regExp .= '('.$enclosureChar.'?)(.*)\\'.(2*$i + 1).$delimiterChar; // construct the regular expression
    }

    $regExp = substr($regExp, 0, (strlen($regExp) - strlen($delimiterChar)))."/"; // format the regular expression

    if (preg_match($regExp, $line, $matches)) {
        $result = array();
        for ($i = 1; $i < count($matches)/2; $i++) {
            $result[$i] = $matches[2*$i]; // get only the fields but not the delimiters
        }

        return $result;
    }

    return FALSE;
}

$line   = "\"Ma\"rk\"*\"Bergeron\"*\"rocks\"*12345*\"times\"";

$output = "The line being parsed is:
    ".$line."
";

if ($data = fgetcsvfromline($line, 5, "*", "\"")) {
    ob_start();
    print_r($data);
    
    $matchHash = "The result is:
        ".ob_get_contents();
    
    ob_end_clean();

    highlight_string($output.$matchHash);
} else {
    echo "Unsupported format!";
}

?>