Reputation: 1449
This is the string I'm trying to explode. This string is part of a paragraph which i need to split at every "newline,space,newline,space" :
s
1
A result from textmagic.com show it contains a \n then a space then a \n and then a space.
This is what I tried:
$values = explode("\n\s\n\s",$string); // 1
$values = explode("\n \n ",$string); // 2
$values = explode("\n\r\n\r",$string); // 3
Desired output:
Array (
[0] => s
[1] => 1
)
but none of them worked. What's wrong here? How do I do it?
Upvotes: 1
Views: 1066
Reputation: 26460
Just use explode()
with PHP_EOL." ".PHP_EOL." "
, which is of the format "newline, space, newline, space". Using PHP_EOL
, you get the correct newline-format for your system.
$split = explode(PHP_EOL." ".PHP_EOL." ", $string);
print_r($split);
Live demo at https://3v4l.org/WpYrJ
Upvotes: 2
Reputation: 432
Using preg_split() to explode() by multiple delimiters in PHP
Just a quick note here. To explode() a string using multiple delimiters in PHP you will have to make use of the regular expressions. Use pipe character to separate your delimiters.
$string = "\n\ranystring"
$chunks = preg_split('/(de1|del2|del3)/',$string,-1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
// Print_r to check response output.
echo '<pre>';
print_r($chunks);
echo '</pre>';
PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY – To return only non-empty pieces.
Upvotes: 0