tokenizing question... 2

admoore · Apr 6, 2005

I am trying to parse a string where substrings are separated by a "space-hyphen-space"... and all of my attempts to define this are met by tokenizing the string at a hyphen -or- a space... Can I declare a string as a token seperator or should I replace the "space-hyphen-space" substring with something else and then tokenize based on the replacement, i.e. broken-bar...??

TIA,

-Allen

sleipnir214 · Apr 6, 2005

Just split the string on " - ".

This code:

Code:

<?php
$a = 'foo - bar - baz';

$b = split (' - ', $a);

print '<html><body><pre>';
print_r ($b);
print '</pre></body></html>';
?>

returns:

[tt]Array
(
[0] => foo
[1] => bar
[2] => baz
)[/tt]

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predamarcel · Apr 6, 2005

just a note:
instead of split(), if you dont need regexp, use explode().

explode() is faster than split(), but doesnt know abou regexp.

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tokenizing question... 2

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