parse search string

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Published on 2010-03-23T10:41:53Z Indexed on 2010/03/23 10:43 UTC
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I have search strings, similar to the one bellow:

energy food "olympics 2010" Terrorism OR "government" OR cups NOT transport

and I need to parse it with PHP5 to detect if the content belongs to any of the following clusters:

  • AllWords array
  • AnyWords array
  • NotWords array

These are the rules i have set:

  1. If it has OR before or after the word or quoted words if belongs to AnyWord.
  2. If it has a NOT before word or quoted words it belongs to NotWords
  3. If it has 0 or more more spaces before the word or quoted phrase it belongs to AllWords.

So the end result should be something similar to:

AllWords: (energy, food, "olympics 2010")
AnyWords: (terrorism, "government", cups)
NotWords: (Transport)

What would be a good way to do this?

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