Help splitting strings

Say I have a string like this:

$string = 'Micheal, Smith, 31, "Corona, California", dentist';

Code (markup):

I want to split this string so that I have an array like this:

$myarray[0] = 'Michael';
$myarray[1] = 'Smith';
$myarray[2] = 21;
$myarray[3] = 'Corona, California';
$myarray[4] = 'dentist';

How do I go about doing this?

if I do:

$myarray= explode(",", $string);

I will get this:

$myarray[0] = 'Michael';
$myarray[1] = 'Smith';
$myarray[2] = 21;
$myarray[3] = '[COLOR="Red"]"[/COLOR]Corona'; 
$myarray[4] = 'California[COLOR="Red"]"[/COLOR]';
$myarray[5] = 'dentist';

Code (markup):

ANy help will be gladly appreciated! Thanks!

 

There you go:

$myarray = preg_split( "/[\s,]*\\\"([^\\\"]+)\\\"[\s,]*|[\s,]+/", $string, 0, PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE );

PHP:

hth

 

Yes, much better!