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How do I split() a string at unquoted whitespace?

Dec 13th, 2002 01:14
Philip Olson, Del Rudolph,

The following:

<?php

    $string = "Hello        there friend    bye!";

    $arr = split('[ ]+', $string);

?>

Provides:

Array
(
    [0] => Hello
    [1] => there
    [2] => friend
    [3] => bye!
)

But if you did:

<?php
$string = "Hello        there friend    bye!";

$arr = explode(' ', $string);
?>

You'll get:

Array
(
    [0] => Hello
    [1] =>
    [2] =>
    [3] =>
    [4] =>
    [5] =>
    [6] =>
    [7] =>
    [8] => there
    [9] => friend
    [10] =>
    [11] =>
    [12] =>
    [13] => bye!
)