cvs: phpdoc /en/functions strings.xml

jimw Fri Dec 7 16:27:53 2001 EDT Modified files: /phpdoc/en/functions strings.xml Log: explode: add example, clean up text a little Index: phpdoc/en/functions/strings.xml diff -u phpdoc/en/functions/strings.xml:1.129 phpdoc/en/functions/strings.xml:1.130 --- phpdoc/en/functions/strings.xml:1.129 Tue Dec 4 14:17:54 2001 +++ phpdoc/en/functions/strings.xml Fri Dec 7 16:27:53 2001 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> -<!-- $Revision: 1.129 $ --> +<!-- $Revision: 1.130 $ --> <reference id="ref.strings"> <title>String functions</title> <titleabbrev>Strings</titleabbrev> @@ -612,14 +612,15 @@ boundaries formed by the string <parameter>separator</parameter>. If <parameter>limit</parameter> is set, the returned array will contain a maximum of <parameter>limit</parameter> elements with - the last element containing the whole rest of - <parameter>string</parameter>. If an empty string ("") is used - as the <parameter>separator</parameter> argument, then + the last element containing the rest of + <parameter>string</parameter>. + </para> + <para> + If <parameter>separator</parameter> is an empty string (""), <function>explode</function> will return &false;. If - <parameter>separator</parameter> contains a value that is not - contained in the <parameter>string</parameter> argument, - then<function>explode</function> will return the - <parameter>string</parameter> argument. + <parameter>separator</parameter> contains a value that is not contained + in <parameter>string</parameter>, then <function>explode</function> will + return an array containing <parameter>string</parameter>. </para> <note> <para> @@ -629,11 +630,14 @@ </note> <para> <example> - <title><function>explode</function> example</title> + <title><function>explode</function> examples</title> <programlisting role="php"> <![CDATA[ $pizza = "piece1 piece2 piece3 piece4 piece5 piece6"; $pieces = explode(" ", $pizza); + +$data = "foo:*:1023:1000::/home/foo:/bin/sh"; +list($user,$pass,$uid,$gid,$gecos,$home,$shell) = explode(":",$data); ]]> </programlisting> </example>