preg_replace
To clarify the "limit" parameter and the PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE option,
<?php
$preg_split('(/ /)', '1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8', 4 ,PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE );
?>
returns:
('1', ' ', '2', ' ' , '3', ' ', '4 5 6 7 8')
So you actually get 7 array items not 4
preg_split
(PHP 4, PHP 5)
preg_split — Suddivisione di una stringa tramite le espressioni regolari
Descrizione
array preg_split
( string
$espressione_regolare
, string $testo
[, int $limite
[, int $flags
]] )
La funzione restituisce una matrice di parti di
testo suddivisi tramite i criteri
indicati da espressione_regolare.
Se viene specificato il parametro limite, la
funzione restituisce tante parti del testo iniziale quante sono indicate
da limite. Può essere usato il valore -1 per
indicare "nessun limite". Ciò torna utile in abbinamento all'uso
del parametro flags.
Il parametro flags può essere la combinazione dei
seguenti flag (la combinazione di più flag avviene con l'operatore |):
-
PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY - Specificando questo flag, la funzione preg_split() restituisce spezzoni di testo non vuoti.
-
PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE -
Con l'uso di questo flag, la funzione cattura e restituisce eventuali
espressioni poste tra parentesi nel parametro
espressione_regolare. Questo flag è stato aggiunto nella versione 4.0.5. -
PREG_SPLIT_OFFSET_CAPTURE -
Se viene impostato questo flag, per ogni testo riconosciuto viene restituito l'offset della stringa. Occorre notare che questo cambia il tipo di valore restituito nell'array; infatti ogni elemento è, a sua volta, un'array composto dalla stringa riconosciuta, all'indice 0, e dall'offset della stringa nell'indice 1. Questa costante è disponibile a partire dalla versione 4.3.0 di PHP.
Example #1 Esempio di preg_split(): Come ottenere le parti di un testo.
<?php
// Suddivide la seguente frase in base alla presenza di virgole, spazi bianchi,
// e altri caratteri speciali quali \r, \t, \n ed \f
$keywords = preg_split("/[\s,]+/", "hypertext language, programming");
?>
Example #2 Esempio di suddivisione di un testo in caratteri.
<?php
$str = 'string';
$chars = preg_split('//', $str, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
print_r($chars);
?>
Example #3 Suddivisione di una stringa in testi riconosciuti con i relativi offset.
<?php
$str = 'hypertext language programming';
$chars = preg_split('/ /', $str, -1, PREG_SPLIT_OFFSET_CAPTURE);
print_r($chars);
?>
visualizzerà
Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[0] => hypertext
[1] => 0
)
[1] => Array
(
[0] => language
[1] => 10
)
[2] => Array
(
[0] => programming
[1] => 19
)
)
Nota:
Il parametro
flagsè stato aggiunto nella versione 4 Beta 3 di PHP.
Vedere anche spliti(), split(), implode(), preg_match(), preg_match_all() e preg_replace().
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User Contributed Notes
preg_split - [22 notes]
jetsoft at iinet.net.au ¶
8 years ago
eric at clarinova dot com ¶
1 year ago
Here is another way to split a CamelCase string, which is a simpler expression than the one using lookaheads and lookbehinds:
preg_split('/([[:upper:]][[:lower:]]+)/', $last, null, PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE|PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY)
It makes the entire CamelCased word the delimiter, then returns the delimiters (PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE) and omits the empty values between the delimiters (PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY)
jan dot sochor at icebolt dot info ¶
3 years ago
Sometimes PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE does strange results.
<?php
$content = '<strong>Lorem ipsum dolor</strong> sit <img src="test.png" />amet <span class="test" style="color:red">consec<i>tet</i>uer</span>.';
$chars = preg_split('/<[^>]*[^\/]>/i', $content, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY | PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE);
print_r($chars);
?>
Produces:
Array
(
[0] => Lorem ipsum dolor
[1] => sit <img src="test.png" />amet
[2] => consec
[3] => tet
[4] => uer
)
So that the delimiter patterns are missing. If you wanna get these patters remember to use parentheses.
<?php
$chars = preg_split('/(<[^>]*[^\/]>)/i', $content, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY | PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE);
print_r($chars); //parentheses added
?>
Produces:
Array
(
[0] => <strong>
[1] => Lorem ipsum dolor
[2] => </strong>
[3] => sit <img src="test.png" />amet
[4] => <span class="test" style="color:red">
[5] => consec
[6] => <i>
[7] => tet
[8] => </i>
[9] => uer
[10] => </span>
[11] => .
)
PhoneixSegovia at gmail dot com ¶
2 years ago
You must be caution when using lookbehind to a variable match.
For example:
'/(?<!\\\)\r?\n)/'
to match a new line when not \ is before it don't go as spected as it match \r as the lookbehind (becouse isn't a \) and is optional before \n.
You must use this for example:
'/((?<!\\\|\r)\n)|((?<!\\\)\r\n)/'
That match a alone \n (not preceded by \r or \) or a \r\n not preceded by a \.
Steve ¶
8 years ago
preg_split() behaves differently from perl's split() if the string ends with a delimiter. This perl snippet will print 5:
my @a = split(/ /, "a b c d e ");
print scalar @a;
The corresponding php code prints 6:
<?php print count(preg_split("/ /", "a b c d e ")); ?>
This is not necessarily a bug (nowhere does the documentation say that preg_split() behaves the same as perl's split()) but it might surprise perl programmers.
buzoganylaszlo at yahoo dot com ¶
3 years ago
Extending m.timmermans's solution, you can use the following code as a search expression parser:
<?php
$search_expression = "apple bear \"Tom Cruise\" or 'Mickey Mouse' another word";
$words = preg_split("/[\s,]*\\\"([^\\\"]+)\\\"[\s,]*|" . "[\s,]*'([^']+)'[\s,]*|" . "[\s,]+/", $search_expression, 0, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY | PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE);
print_r($words);
?>
The result will be:
Array
(
[0] => apple
[1] => bear
[2] => Tom Cruise
[3] => or
[4] => Mickey Mouse
[5] => another
[6] => word
)
1. Accepted delimiters: white spaces (space, tab, new line etc.) and commas.
2. You can use either simple (') or double (") quotes for expressions which contains more than one word.
wf ¶
3 years ago
Spacing out your CamelCase using preg_replace:
<?php
function spacify($camel, $glue = ' ') {
return preg_replace( '/([a-z0-9])([A-Z])/', "$1$glue$2", $camel );
}
echo spacify('CamelCaseWords'), "\n"; // 'Camel Case Words'
echo spacify('camelCaseWords'), "\n"; // 'camel Case Words'
?>
nesbert at gmail dot com ¶
3 years ago
Hope this helps someone...
<?php
/**
* Split a string into groups of words with a line no longer than $max
* characters.
*
* @param string $string
* @param integer $max
* @return array
**/
function split_words($string, $max = 1)
{
$words = preg_split('/\s/', $string);
$lines = array();
$line = '';
foreach ($words as $k => $word) {
$length = strlen($line . ' ' . $word);
if ($length <= $max) {
$line .= ' ' . $word;
} else if ($length > $max) {
if (!empty($line)) $lines[] = trim($line);
$line = $word;
} else {
$lines[] = trim($line) . ' ' . $word;
$line = '';
}
}
$lines[] = ($line = trim($line)) ? $line : $word;
return $lines;
}
?>
php at dmi dot me dot uk ¶
3 years ago
To split a camel-cased string using preg_split() with lookaheads and lookbehinds:
<?php
function splitCamelCase($str) {
return preg_split('/(?<=\\w)(?=[A-Z])/', $str);
}
?>
Peter -the pete- de Pijd ¶
3 years ago
If you want to use something like explode(PHP_EOL, $string) but for all combinations of \r and \n, try this one:
<?php
$text = "A\nB\rC\r\nD\r\rE\n\nF";
$texts = preg_split("/((\r(?!\n))|((?<!\r)\n)|(\r\n))/", $text);
?>
result:
array("A", "B", "C", "D", "", "E", "", "F");
kenorb at gmail dot com ¶
4 years ago
If you need convert function arguments without default default values and references, you can try this code:
<?php
$func_args = '$node, $op, $a3 = NULL, $form = array(), $a4 = NULL'
$call_arg = preg_match_all('@(?<func_arg>\$[^,= ]+)@i', $func_args, $matches);
$call_arg = implode(',', $matches['func_arg']);
?>
Result: string = "$node,$op,$a3,$form,$a4"
csaba at alum dot mit dot edu ¶
4 years ago
If the task is too complicated for preg_split, preg_match_all might come in handy, since preg_split is essentially a special case.
I wanted to split a string on a certain character (asterisk), but only if it wasn't escaped (by a preceding backslash). Thus, I should ensure an even number of backslashes before any asterisk meant as a splitter. Look-behind in a regular expression wouldn't work since the length of the preceding backslash sequence can't be fixed. So I turned to preg_match_all:
<?php
// split a string at unescaped asterisks
// where backslash is the escape character
$splitter = "/\\*((?:[^\\\\*]|\\\\.)*)/";
preg_match_all($splitter, "*$string", $aPieces, PREG_PATTERN_ORDER);
$aPieces = $aPieces[1];
// $aPieces now contains the exploded string
// and unescaping can be safely done on each piece
foreach ($aPieces as $idx=>$piece)
$aPieces[$idx] = preg_replace("/\\\\(.)/s", "$1", $piece);
?>
anajilly ¶
4 years ago
<?php
$s = '<p>bleh blah</p><p style="one">one two three</p>';
$htmlbits = preg_split('/(<p( style="[-:a-z0-9 ]+")?>|<\/p>)/i', $s, -1, PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE);
print_r($htmlbits);
?>
Array
(
[0] =>
[1] => <p>
[2] => bleh blah
[3] => </p>
[4] =>
[5] => <p style="one">
[6] => style="one"
[7] => one two three
[8] => </p>
[9] =>
)
two interesting bits:
1. When using PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE, if you use more than one pair of parentheses, the result array can have members representing all pairs. See array indexes 5 and 6 to see two adjacent delimiter results in which the second is a subset match of the first.
2. If a parenthesised sub-expression is made optional by a following question mark (ex: '/abc (optional subregex)?/') some split delimiters may be captured in the result while others are not. See array indexes 1 and 2 to see an instance where the overall match succeeded and returned a delimiter while the optional sub-expression '( style="[-:a-z0-9 ]+")?' did not match, and did not return a delimiter. This means it's possible to have a result with an unpredictable number of delimiters in the result array.
This second aspect is true irrespective of the number of pairs of parentheses in the regex. This means: in a regular expression with a single optional parenthesised sub-expression, the overall expression can match without generating a corresponding delimiter in the result.
w o z 2 2 a t y a h o o d o t c o m ¶
1 year ago
PREG_SPLIT_OFFSET_CAPTURE should be maintained for UTF-8 characters, because it produces wrong results as if it is using strlen() internally, instead of using mb_strlen(), which is the right one...
david dot binovec at gmail dot com ¶
1 year ago
Limit = 1 may be confusing. The important thing is that in case of limit equals to 1 will produce only ONE substring. Ergo the only one substring will be the first one as well as the last one. Tnat the rest of the string (after the first delimiter) will be placed to the last substring. But last is the first and only one.
<?php
$output = $preg_split('(/ /)', '1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8', 1);
echo $output[0] //will return whole string!;
$output = $preg_split('(/ /)', '1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8', 2);
echo $output[0] //will return 1;
echo $output[1] //will return '2 3 4 5 6 7 8';
?>
Daniel Schroeder ¶
2 years ago
If you want to split by a char, but want to ignore that char in case it is escaped, use a lookbehind assertion.
In this example a string will be split by ":" but "\:" will be ignored:
<?php
$string='a:b:c\:d';
$array=preg_split('#(?<!\\\)\:#',$string);
print_r($array);
?>
Results into:
Array
(
[0] => a
[1] => b
[2] => c\:d
)
sergei dot garrison at gmail dot com ¶
3 years ago
If you need to split a list of "tags" while allowing for user error, you'll find this more useful than the manual's first example.
<?php
$string = 'one, two,three, four , five,six seven';
$array = preg_split("/[\s]*[,][\s]*/", $string);
print_r($array);
// Array ( [0] => one [1] => two [2] => three [3] => four [4] => five [5] => six seven )
?>
This splits the string *only* by commas, regardless of how many spaces there are on either side of any comma.
dave at codewhore dot org ¶
10 years ago
The above description for PREG_SPLIT_OFFSET_CAPTURE may be a bit confusing.
When the flag is or'd into the 'flags' parameter of preg_split, each match is returned in the form of a two-element array. For each of the two-element arrays, the first element is the matched string, while the second is the match's zero-based offset in the input string.
For example, if you called preg_split like this:
preg_split('/foo/', 'matchfoomatch', -1, PREG_SPLIT_OFFSET_CAPTURE);
it would return an array of the form:
Array(
[0] => Array([0] => "match", [1] => 0),
[1] => Array([1] => "match", [1] => 8)
)
Note that or'ing in PREG_DELIM_CAPTURE along with PREG_SPLIT_OFFSET_CAPTURE works as well.
chris AT cmbuckley DOT co DOT uk ¶
3 years ago
Here's a helpful function to space out your CamelCase using preg_split:
<?php
function spacify($camel, $glue = ' ') {
return $camel[0] . substr(implode($glue, array_map('implode', array_chunk(preg_split('/([A-Z])/',
ucfirst($camel), -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY | PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE), 2))), 1);
}
echo spacify('CamelCaseWords'); // 'Camel Case Words'
echo spacify('camelCaseWords'); // 'camel Case Words'
?>
bit_kahuna at yahoo dot com ¶
4 years ago
how to display a shortened text string with an elipsis, but on word boundaries only.
<?php
function truncate($string, $max = 70, $rep = '...') {
$words = preg_split("/[\s]+/", $string);
$newstring = '';
$numwords = 0;
foreach ($words as $word) {
if ((strlen($newstring) + 1 + strlen($word)) < $max) {
$newstring .= ' '.$word;
++$numwords;
} else {
break;
}
}
if ($numwords < count($words)) {
$newstring .= $rep;
}
return $newstring;
}
?>
hope this helps someone! thanks for all the help from everyone else!!
m dot timmermans at home dot NOSPAM dot nl ¶
4 years ago
For people who want to use the double quote to group words/fields, kind of like CSV does, you can use the following expression:
<?php
$keywords = preg_split( "/[\s,]*\\\"([^\\\"]+)\\\"[\s,]*|[\s,]+/", "textline with, commas and \"quoted text\" inserted", 0, PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE );
?>
Which will result in:
Array
(
[0] => textline
[1] => with
[2] => commas
[3] => and
[4] => quoted text
[5] => inserted
)
crispytwo at yahoo dot com ¶
5 years ago
I was having trouble getting the PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE flag to work because I missed reading the "parenthesized expression" in the documentation :-(
So the pattern should look like:
/(A)/
not just
/A/
and it works as described/expected.