I am practising with the AdventureWorks database for now and I will be receiving strings like the following: SalesOrderNumber=SOH123 and CustomerID=1. The strings may not always contain =, as they may be >, <, >=, <=, !=, <>. Ideally, I would like to split each string into 3 fields – t…
Tag: preg-split
Is there any option to separate special characters from words with regex/preg_split?
I’m junior and not at ease with regex, and I’m trying to do a password generator with sentences using regex and preg_split. All is done except one thing, for example the sentence “I’ve got 2 cats.” …
preg_split – split by white space and by chosen character but keep the character in array
So i have this problem, i want to split a string by a pattern that contains white space( ) and comma (,). I managed to split my string by that pattern but the problem is that i want to keep that comma in array. Here is my string: Here is how i split it: Here is the array that i’m
Split string by last character and save to array?
I have several strings that look like: longname1, anotherlongname2, has1numbers2init3 I would like to use str_split to split off the last character of the strings. Eg: I can get the number alone using substr($string, -1); but need to find an efficient way of retrieving the remainder of the string. I have trie…
Split string on dots not preceded by a digit without losing digit in split
Given the following sentence: I want preg_split() to give this: I am using: But this gives me: As you can see, the last character of each sentence is removed. I know why this happens, but I don’t know how to prevent it from happening. Any ideas? Can lookaheads and lookbehinds help here? I am not really …
Split string on non-alphanumeric characters and on positions between digits and non-digits
I’m trying to split a string by non-alphanumeric delimiting characters AND between alternations of digits and non-digits. The end result should be a flat array of consisting of alphabetic strings and numeric strings. I’m working in PHP, and would like to use REGEX. Examples: ES-3810/24MX should be…
Explode string only once on first occurring substring
preg_match() gives one match. preg_match_all() returns all matches. preg_split() returns all splits. How can I split only on the first match? Example: This is what I want: Answer Simply set $limit to 2 for 2 parts of the array. Thanks to @BenJames for mentioning: I tested and it works fine. The limit argument…
Split text using multiple delimiters into an array of trimmed values
I’ve got a group of strings which I need to chunk into an array. The string needs to be split on either /, ,, with, or &. Unfortunately it is possible for a string to contain two of the strings which needs to be split on, so I can’t use split() or explode(). For example, a string could say fir…