[thelist] preg_split in PHP
alpha at student.uci.agh.edu.pl
alpha at student.uci.agh.edu.pl
Tue Jan 15 03:36:06 CST 2002
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 11:29:50PM -0500, noah wrote:
> It worked, but I still wasn't able to count the characters properly
> (preg_split was still acting funny, and count_chars() seems to have emerged
Thats where strlen() could be helpful :)
> I'm still curious about why when I did:
>
> $acts = preg_split('//', '2457');
> $number_of_acts = (count($acts));
>
> $number_of_acts came back as 6.
Because it also splits beginning and end of the string - and they give
empty array elements, so you should use:
$acts = preg_split('//', '2457', -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
Notice -1 as the third argument!!
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