[RESOLVED] String Spliting

alirezaok

i have a long string like as:

$var="Site,Browse.option]has[been,added,This'allows[you";

i want to split this varibale to array with some characters that i define.
characters i define are: ,.[]'
the result must be:

echo $vars[0]; //prints Site
echo $vars[1]; //prints Browse
echo $vars[2]; //prints option
echo $vars[3]; //prints has
echo $vars[4]; //prints been
echo $vars[5] ;//prints added
...

any one can help me to do this?

thanks

laserlight

[man]preg_split/man sounds like what you want.

alirezaok

in the above my question if The boundary string is not one char then what do i do.

$var="Site<br><br>Browse<br><br>option<b>has<td><l>been<td><l>added<td><l>This<b>allows<br><br>you";

for exmaple The boundary strings are: '<br><br>' or '<b>' or '<td><l>'

the result must be:

echo $vars[0]; //prints Site 
echo $vars[1]; //prints Browse 
echo $vars[2]; //prints option 
echo $vars[3]; //prints has 
echo $vars[4]; //prints been 
echo $vars[5] ;//prints added 
...

can u take me some time and write the pattern of this please?

NogDog

$separators = ",.[]'";
$vars = preg_split('/['.preg_quote($separators).']+/', $var);

wilku

There is an alternative in regular expression to match something or something or something. So if you wan't to add multiple split strings you can use (a|b), which means a or b:

$separators = ",.[]'";
$string_separators = array('<br><br>','<b>','<td><l>');
$regex = '/(['.preg_quote($separators).']+';
foreach ($string_separators as $s)
       $regex.='|'.preg_quote($s);
$regex.=')/i';
$vars = preg_split($regex, $var);

I haven't checked if it works as supposed to.