preg_split problem

[zoomerz]

Hi all~

I'm trying to use preg_split() to return substrings split on the "|" character (the bitwise "or" operator). It's (obviously) seeing the expression as [empty string "or" empty string].....

Does anyone know how to escape it so it splits on the "|" as a character?

Thanks in advance!

Zoomerz

[Anon]

You should be able to escape it with a backslash.

[zoomerz]

Hi Tom; I tried something like;

$myArray = preg_split('|',$myStr); but it didn't work either, still returning every character....any other ideas?

Thanks!
zoomerz

[zoomerz]

got it, I bracketed the '|' like this '[|]' and it works, Thanks for the help 🙂

Zoomerz

[Anon]

Yeah, you missed out the regexp delimiters PCRE regexps need.

But you wouldn't have had any of this trouble if you'd looked at explode()