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CLiown
CLiown

Reputation: 13843

comma-separated string to array

I'm looking for the simplest way to take a single variable such as:

$variable = 'left,middle,right';

and write it to an array(); split at the commas.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 16703

Answers (3)

ghostdog74
ghostdog74

Reputation: 342293

you can also use preg_split()

$variable = 'left  ,  middle,   right';
print_r ( preg_split("/\s*,\s*/",$variable));

Upvotes: 1

VolkerK
VolkerK

Reputation: 96159

In case you string gets a little bit more complex (i.e. elements can be in quotes and both the delimiter and the quoting character can appear within an element) you might also be interested in fgetcsv() and str_getcsv()

$variable = '"left,right","middle", "up,down"';
$row = str_getcsv($variable);
var_dump($row);

prints

array(3) {
  [0]=>
  string(10) "left,right"
  [1]=>
  string(6) "middle"
  [2]=>
  string(7) "up,down"
}

Upvotes: 5

jasonbar
jasonbar

Reputation: 13461

$array = explode(',', $variable);

Upvotes: 35

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