note 88989 deleted from function.preg-split by danbrown

Note Submitter: jasper [] horn [at] gmail [dot] com ---- harriswm: As merlinyoda mentioned, you are not using any benefit of regexes, so you are better off using explode instead. However, you also mentioned wanting to do this with a single call to preg_split, which is not all that hard if you have some knowledge of regexes, it's simply: <?php preg_split('~(' . $part1 . ')|(' . $part2 . ')|(' . $part3 . ')~'); ?> I would still advise against using regular expressions here, though. Personally I would need a very good reason to use a regular expression that is not a constant in my code. Regular expressions just do have to many variables to let the regular expression depend on the situation completely.