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break text into an array : php

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  • 26-10-2007 9:00pm
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    ChicoMendez
    Registered Users Posts: 648 ✭✭✭


    hi,
    i have text in a variable and i want to break the text into an array broken down line by line.
    how do i do that ?

    tnx


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    daymobrew
    Registered Users Posts: 6,511 ✭✭✭daymobrew


    Look at the split function. Some useful examples in the 'User contributed notes' section.


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    Bluefrog
    Registered Users Posts: 1,045 ✭✭✭Bluefrog


    $lines = explode('\n' $yourstring);

    I like explode - mainly because it's called explode...


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    DonkeyStyle \o/
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,145 ✭✭✭DonkeyStyle \o/


    Bluefrog wrote: »
    I like explode - mainly because it's called explode...
    Yeah same here actually... implode too. :)

    Might want to str_replace the remaining \r's too if line breaks are coming in as \r\n ... or make something more elaborate to detect which line-breaks are present... I can never remember which ones are unix/windows... gonna have to look that up some day.


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    randombar
    Registered Users Posts: 3,401 ✭✭✭randombar


    yup, explode is de job!


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    daymobrew
    Registered Users Posts: 6,511 ✭✭✭daymobrew


    explode is perfect when the delimiter is static, while split is for when the delimiter changes as you can use a regular expression for the delimiter.


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