> Doing a search engine and want to allow users to enter multiple strings 
> each strings bounded by quotes to search on the occurrence of those 
> strings in the target db.  So, like tokanizing functions do their 
> tokanizing thing on characters like space or whatever based only on one 
> character, it would be handy to tokanize strings defined by enclosing 
> quotes.
> 
> So, if somebody searched on "quick brown fox" and "wild dogs", the two 
> strings could be placed in array cells (tokens?) and used in a search.  
> I've been looking at POSIX regular functions, but most recently read 
> that native PHP functions would execute faster.  Question is, I guess, 
> is there a tokanizing PHP function that will break out strings defined 
> by enclosing quotes?

You should examine fulltext searches on MySQL 4.1.

  http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/fulltext-search.html

James
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