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IntFooBar
IntFooBar

Reputation: 312

How to split string with special character (�) using PHP

Currently I am trying to split the � the special character which represents %A0 at the URL. However when I use another URL, it doesn't recognize %A0 therefore I need to use %20 which is the standard space.

My question is. Is there a way to explode() special character �? Whenever I try to explode, it always return a single index array with length 1 array.

  //Tried str_replace() to replace %A0 to empty string. Didn't work
  $a = str_replace("%A0"," ", $_GET['view']);

  // Tried to explode() but still returning single element
  $b = explode("�", $a);

  // Returning Array[0] => "Hello World" insteand of 
  // Array[2] => [0] => "Hello", [1] => "World"
  echo $b[0];

Upvotes: 0

Views: 919

Answers (1)

Omagerio
Omagerio

Reputation: 505

Take a look at mb_split:

array mb_split ( string $pattern , string $string [, int $limit = -1 ] )

Split a multibyte string using regular expression pattern and returns the result as an array.

Like this:

$string = "a�b�k�e";
$chunks = mb_split("�", $string);
print_r($chunks);

Outputs:

Array
(
    [0] => a
    [1] => b
    [2] => k
    [3] => e
)

Upvotes: 1

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