[RESOLVED] explode is causing problems

[PaPPy]

I need to take this "something.blah.com/test/lack/123/56CS"
and trying to
explode by forward slash

then I am trying to save it into XML format for Excel

$path_explode = explode("/", $path);


foreach($path_explode as $key => $value) {
echo "     <Cell><Data ss:Type=\"String\">" . $value . "</Data></Cell>\n\r";
}

my output ends up being this

     <Cell><Data ss:Type="String">something.blah.com</Data></Cell>
     <Cell><Data ss:Type="String">test</Data></Cell>
     <Cell><Data ss:Type="String">lack</Data></Cell>
     <Cell><Data ss:Type="String">123</Data></Cell>
</Data></Cell>ta ss:Type="String">56CS

The last value ends up messing up, I believe its because the last character doesnt having a trailing slash.

So I try adding it, and it still messes up.

Ive even tried counting the number of items in the $path_explode array, and then

if ($key == $count){ }//dont echo

ive also tried count -1, -2

I have tried multiple versions of 5.2.* to see if it was a bug, but still have the same problem

Please anyone can point me in the right direction, I am loosing my mind.

[laserlight]

Sorry, but I cannot duplicate your problem, and in fact it looks like your actual output shouldn't happen.

[bradgrafelman]

I agree with laserlight; this test code:

<?php
var_dump( explode( "/", "something.blah.com/test/lack/123/56CS" ) );

produced this output:

array(5) {
  [0]=>
  string(18) "something.blah.com"
  [1]=>
  string(4) "test"
  [2]=>
  string(4) "lack"
  [3]=>
  string(3) "123"
  [4]=>
  string(4) "56CS"
}

Thus your corrupted output is being caused by something other than what you've shown us above.

[PaPPy]

I was doing it thru command prompt on windows because I dont have a webserver at work.

i used parse_url, and found out that the explode was adding a / to the end, so I chopped off the and it works fine