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<h1 class="refname">spliti</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 4 >= 4.0.1, PHP 5)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">spliti</span> — <span class="dc-title">Split string into array by regular expression case insensitive</span></p>
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<div class="warning"><strong class="warning">Warning</strong>
<p class="para">
This function was <em class="emphasis">DEPRECATED</em> in PHP 5.3.0, and
<em class="emphasis">REMOVED</em> in PHP 7.0.0.
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<p class="para">
Alternatives to this function include:
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<ul class="simplelist">
<li class="member">
<span class="function"><a href="function.preg-split.html" class="function">preg_split()</a></span>
(with the <em>i</em> (<strong><code>PCRE_CASELESS</code></strong>)
modifier)
</li>
</ul>
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<div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-function.spliti-description">
<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
<div class="methodsynopsis dc-description">
<span class="type">array</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>spliti</strong></span>
( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$pattern</code></span>
, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$string</code></span>
[, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">int</span> <code class="parameter">$limit</code><span class="initializer"> = -1</span></span>
] )</div>
<p class="para rdfs-comment">
Splits a <code class="parameter">string</code> into array by regular expression.
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<p class="para">
This function is identical to <span class="function"><a href="function.split.html" class="function">split()</a></span> except that this
ignores case distinction when matching alphabetic characters.
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<div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-function.spliti-parameters">
<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
<p class="para">
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<dt>
<code class="parameter">pattern</code></dt>
<dd>
<p class="para">
Case insensitive regular expression.
</p>
<p class="para">
If you want to split on any of the characters which are considered
special by regular expressions, you'll need to escape them first. If
you think <span class="function"><strong>spliti()</strong></span> (or any other regex function, for
that matter) is doing something weird, please read the file
<var class="filename">regex.7</var>, included in the
<var class="filename">regex/</var> subdirectory of the PHP distribution. It's
in manpage format, so you'll want to do something along the lines of
<strong class="command">man /usr/local/src/regex/regex.7</strong> in order to read it.
</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<code class="parameter">string</code></dt>
<dd>
<p class="para">
The input string.
</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<code class="parameter">limit</code></dt>
<dd>
<p class="para">
If <code class="parameter">limit</code> is set, the returned array will
contain a maximum of <code class="parameter">limit</code> elements with the
last element containing the whole rest of
<code class="parameter">string</code>.
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</dd>
</dl>
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<div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-function.spliti-returnvalues">
<h3 class="title">Return Values</h3>
<p class="para">
Returns an array of strings, each of which is a substring of
<code class="parameter">string</code> formed by splitting it on boundaries formed
by the case insensitive regular expression <code class="parameter">pattern</code>.
</p>
<p class="para">
If there are <span class="replaceable">n</span> occurrences of
<code class="parameter">pattern</code>, the returned array will contain
<em><span class="replaceable">n</span>+1</em> items. For example, if
there is no occurrence of <code class="parameter">pattern</code>, an array with
only one element will be returned. Of course, this is also true if
<code class="parameter">string</code> is empty. If an error occurs,
<span class="function"><strong>spliti()</strong></span> returns <strong><code>FALSE</code></strong>.
</p>
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<div class="refsect1 examples" id="refsect1-function.spliti-examples">
<h3 class="title">Examples</h3>
<p class="para">
This example splits a string using 'a' as the separator :
<div class="example" id="example-6016">
<p><strong>Example #1 <span class="function"><strong>spliti()</strong></span> example</strong></p>
<div class="example-contents">
<div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000">
<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br />$string </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"aBBBaCCCADDDaEEEaGGGA"</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$chunks </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">spliti </span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"a"</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$string</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">5</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">print_r</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$chunks</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
</span>
</code></div>
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<div class="example-contents"><p>The above example will output:</p></div>
<div class="example-contents screen">
<div class="cdata"><pre>
Array
(
[0] =>
[1] => BBB
[2] => CCC
[3] => DDD
[4] => EEEaGGGA
)
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<div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-function.spliti-seealso">
<h3 class="title">See Also</h3>
<p class="para">
<ul class="simplelist">
<li class="member"><span class="function"><a href="function.preg-split.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">preg_split()</a> - Split string by a regular expression</span></li>
<li class="member"><span class="function"><a href="function.split.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">split()</a> - Split string into array by regular expression</span></li>
<li class="member"><span class="function"><a href="function.explode.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">explode()</a> - Split a string by a string</span></li>
<li class="member"><span class="function"><a href="function.implode.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">implode()</a> - Join array elements with a string</span></li>
</ul>
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