Split String

[neroag]

Hi All
Is there a way i can split the items in a string into seperate vars .. $string= "> Cat 1 > subcat 1 > subcat 2" into

$var1="Cat 1"
$var2="subcat 1"
$var3="subcat 2"

thanks for any help

[sneakyimp]

You could consider using [man]explode[/man]. Something like this:

$string= "> Cat 1 > subcat 1 > subcat 2";
$my_array = explode(">", $string);

Note that this might result in $my_array having a values with just spaces in them and the other slots having values with a space before and/or after. You'd need to loop through the array and clean it up a bit.

[NogDog]

If you want to get rid of any excess white space, but cannot always be sure if it will be there, preg_split() can be useful, too:

$parts = preg_split('/\s*>\s*/', $string, null, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
// last arg so leading ">" does not create empty element