php explode by comma ignore thousands seperator - php

Question

I am scraping the following kind of strings from an external resource which I can't change:
["one item",0,0,2,0,1,"800.12"],
["another item",1,3,2,5,1,"1,713.59"],
(etc...)
I use the following code to explode the elements into an array.
<?php
$id = 0;
foreach($lines AS $line) {
$id = 0;
// remove brackets and line end comma's
$found_data[] = str_replace(array('],', '[',']', '"'), array('','','',''), $line);
// add data to array
$results[$id] = explode(',', $line);
}
Which works fine for the first line, but as the second line uses a comma for the thousands seperator of the last item, it fails there. So somehow I need to disable the explode to replace stuff between " characters.
If all values would be surrounded by " characters, I could just use something like
explode('","', $line);
However, unfortunately that's not the case here: some values are surrounded by ", some aren't (not always the same values are). So I'm a bit lost in how I should proceed. Anyone who can point me in the right direction?

Answer 1

You can use json_decode here since your input string appears to be a valid json string.
$str = '["another item",1,3,2,5,1,"1,713.59"]'
$arr = json_decode($str);
You can then access individual indices from resulting array or print the whole array using:
print_r($arr);
Output:
Array
(
[0] => another item
[1] => 1
[2] => 3
[3] => 2
[4] => 5
[5] => 1
[6] => 1,713.59
)