String Manipulation

Anon

I need to divide a string into multiple ones according to the spaces.
That is, I have a string containing multiple words with spaces in between.
Now I need to divide this into separate words and probably assign them to an array.

It's quite easy in Perl
@array = split(/\s+/, $string);

Any way to do this in php3

And how do we count the number of elements in an array.
Does $#array work?

Thanks

lawnmowerman

Pretty much the same way 🙂

<?php

$string = 'this is a test';

$array = split( '( )+', $string );

print count( $array ) . "\n";

prints "4"

print $array[0] . "\n";

prints "this"

print $array[1] . "\n";

prints "is"

print $array[2] . "\n";

prints "a"

print $array[3] . "\n";

prints "test"

I hope this helps 🙂

-Rich

Anon

Thanks a million!!! Rich

The script you sent surely solved the problem.

You wouldn't believe how many articles I went thru but couldn't find the split operator anywhere

Thanks alot

-Kris

polson

When in doubt, search :

The manual (split)

http://php.net/search.php

Google (php split)

http://www.google.com/search?q=php+split

The mailing list (maybe not for this)

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general&r=1&w=2&q=b

All really helpful for such things. I can only imagine how many articles you went through looking for split related information :-)