cvs: phpdoc /en/functions strings.xml

zak Fri Jan 4 20:03:26 2002 EDT Modified files: /phpdoc/en/functions strings.xml Log: Extended strtok documentation to include information about multiple tokens Index: phpdoc/en/functions/strings.xml diff -u phpdoc/en/functions/strings.xml:1.150 phpdoc/en/functions/strings.xml:1.151 --- phpdoc/en/functions/strings.xml:1.150 Wed Jan 2 07:26:33 2002 +++ phpdoc/en/functions/strings.xml Fri Jan 4 20:03:24 2002 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> -<!-- $Revision: 1.150 $ --> +<!-- $Revision: 1.151 $ --> <reference id="ref.strings"> <title>String functions</title> <titleabbrev>Strings</titleabbrev> @@ -3386,16 +3386,19 @@ </funcprototype> </funcsynopsis> <para> - <function>strtok</function> is used to tokenize a string. That - is, if you have a string like "This is an example string" you + <function>strtok</function> splits a string (<parameter>arg1</parameter>) + into smaller strings (tokens), with each token being delimited by any + character from <parameter>arg2</parameter>. + That is, if you have a string like "This is an example string" you could tokenize this string into its individual words by using the space character as the token. <example> <title><function>strtok</function> example</title> <programlisting role="php"> <![CDATA[ -$string = "This is an example string"; -$tok = strtok($string," "); +$string = "This is\tan example\nstring"; +/* Use tab and newline as tokenizing characters as well */ +$tok = strtok($string," \n\t"); while ($tok) { echo "Word=$tok<br>"; $tok = strtok(" ");