note 102673 deleted from function.explode by danbrown

Note Submitter: Aram Kocharyan ---- An improvement to my previous post, this version will also trim whitespace from the front and end of the string, as well as allow you to specify a delimiter yourself. <?php /* Performs explode() on a string with the given delimiter and trims all whitespace for the elements */ function explode_trim($str, $delimiter = ',') { if ( is_string($delimiter) ) { $str = trim(preg_replace('|\\s*(?:' . preg_quote($delimiter) . ')\\s*|', $delimiter, $str)); return explode($delimiter, $str); } return $str; } // Test $str = ' mouse ,cat , dog , human '; $array = explode_trim($str); print_r($array); ?> This will output: ( [0] => mouse [1] => cat [2] => dog [3] => human )