note 98135 deleted from function.explode by peehaa

Note Submitter: jessebusman at gmail dot com ---- Sometimes you need to explode a string by different delimiters. In that case you can use this function: <?php print_r(explodeX(Array(".","!"," ","?",";"),"This.sentence?contains wrong;characters")); // Returns: // Array("This","sentence","contains","wrong","characters") function explodeX($delimiters,$string) { $return_array = Array($string); // The array to return $d_count = 0; while (isset($delimiters[$d_count])) // Loop to loop through all delimiters { $new_return_array = Array(); foreach($return_array as $el_to_split) // Explode all returned elements by the next delimiter { $put_in_new_return_array = explode($delimiters[$d_count],$el_to_split); foreach($put_in_new_return_array as $substr) // Put all the exploded elements in array to return { $new_return_array[] = $substr; } } $return_array = $new_return_array; // Replace the previous return array by the next version $d_count++; } return $return_array; // Return the exploded elements } ?>