Parse searchterms and displayterms in search table

[LauraS]

Does anybody know how to parse out the searchterms and displayterms columns in the xxx_search table? I need to figure out attributes related to a search ID and am wondering if there is any documentation out there that can describe how to parse out the strings in those 2 fields. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

[kh99]

I don't know all the details or if there's any documentation, but those fields are serialized arrays. So if you call unserialize() and pass the value from the database, it will return an array of terms.