[RESOLVED] Split / Explode

[I_Love_My_Vans]

I have looked at php.net for this, with little result.

I want to seperate one string into an array, here is what i want to achieve.

$blah = "css:syntax:copyright";

// Split up, using : as the string pattern, i want these to go into an array

Loop array

   // My code

end; 

No considering i havnt done arrays, or looping an array to the last instance i will look this up, and one know how to get the string split into an array? And if pos, how the array will loop?

Cheers

[CornedBee]

You haven't looked very hard, apparently. The function you want is called explode().

[kows]

Split and Explode both do the same thing, though Split I believe is just a shortcut and calls to explode anyway.

syntax is: explode(delimiter, string, limit)

where limit is the maximum number of positions you want in the array you're making. it's optional, and by default it will just split everything unless specified otherwise.

[CornedBee]

Wrong. split() splits on a regular expression, explode() on a simple string. Thus, explode() is faster, and split() can hit you unexpectedly if your split string contains regex characters.

This is a mistake that is easily made, because the reverse functions, join() and implode(), are in fact aliases for the same function, since you can't join on a regular expression.

[I_Love_My_Vans]

Ah! I have used switch > for each and a switch statement.

Right well im sorted, cheers guys (Y) spot on