Split string into array

[deep]

Hello,

Can anyone help me find an easy way to do this:

Split a string at "-", "_", ":" and " " (space) and place the result in an array?

Example:

"hello there:whats-up_dude"

$array[0] = "hello";
$array[0] = "there";
$array[0] = "whats";
$array[0] = "up";
$array[0] = "dude";

My script got way too long 😉

Thx.

[mtmosier]

Sounds like a job for preg_split. Here's an example from the manual which you could easily modify.

<?php
// split the phrase by any number of commas or space characters,
// which include " ", \r, \t, \n and \\f
$keywords = preg_split("/[\\s,]+/", "hypertext language, programming");
?> 

[deep]

Thanks,

Tested my way forward and found that this works:

$keywords = preg_split("/[ ,-_:]+/", "hypertext:language_programming");

If you see something wrong with the "/[ ,-:]+/" part, please shout! 🙂 I just tested my way forward so if you see a bug in "/[ ,-:]+/" pls tell me 🙂

[mtmosier]

Looks good overall. I would put a "\" in front of the "-", since "-" has a special meaning inside of "[]" in regular expressions. Not sure if it matters here, but I always do it just in case.

[deep]

Thanks!