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ibrahim
ibrahim

Reputation: 3414

Separating words (with spaces and specific punctuation in between) by using regex in PHP

I have a string and it contains some words that I want to reach, seperators can be any string that consist of , ; or a space.

Here is a example:

;,osman,ali;, mehmet ;ahmet,ayse; ,

I need to take words osman ali mehmet ahmet and ayse to an array or any type that I can use them one by one. I tried it by using preg function but i couldn't figure out.

If anyone help, I will be appreciative.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1982

Answers (3)

dnagirl
dnagirl

Reputation: 20456

Split on non-word characters:

$array=preg_split("/\W+/", $string);

Upvotes: 1

Felix Kling
Felix Kling

Reputation: 816502

$words = preg_split('/[,;\s]+/', $str, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
  • [,;\s] is a character group which means match any of the characters contained in this group.
  • \s matches any white space character (space, tab, newline, etc.). If this is too much just replace it with a space: [,; ].
  • + means match one or more of the preceding symbol or group.

DEMO

http://www.regular-expressions.info/ is a good site to learn regular expressions.

Upvotes: 8

Jonathan Fingland
Jonathan Fingland

Reputation: 57167

You want to use preg_split and use [;, ]+ for your regex to split on

$keywords = preg_split("/[;, ]+/", $yourstring);

Upvotes: 3

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