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RatheeshTS
RatheeshTS

Reputation: 419

is there any better way to add separate single line to multiple line in PHP?

I am writing a function in PHP to separate single line string to multiple line string. My function is given below'

function addNewlines($content = null, $split_as = 25, $seprater = PHP_EOL) {
    $result = '';
    while ($content != null) {
      $result .= substr($content, 0, $split_as) . $seprater;
      $content = substr($content, $split_as);
    }
    return $result;
}

I am calling this fucntion from an another function which used to export database data to excel,

 $detail[$value]= $this->addNewlines($detail[$value]);//call function to split

which may call these function for all rows fetched from DB. You can see addNewlines function may take 10 iterations for a string contains 250 characters. is there any better way to reduce the number of iterations or optimize this function. I mean using regex or any other method?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 48

Answers (1)

Michel
Michel

Reputation: 4157

Use the build in functions str_split to split the line in chuncks and implode to glue the resulting array with PHP_EOL.

$result = implode ( PHP_EOL , str_split( $string , 25 ) );

Upvotes: 1

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