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>    (PHP 3&#62;= 3.0.9, PHP 4 )</P
>preg_split&nbsp;--&nbsp;Split string by a regular expression</DIV
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>Description</H2
>array <B
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>preg_split</B
> ( string pattern, string subject [, int limit [, int flags]])<BR
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>Note: </B
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      Parameter <TT
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>flags</I
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> was added in PHP 4 Beta 3.
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>&#13;     Returns an array containing substrings of
     <TT
CLASS="parameter"
><I
>subject</I
></TT
> split along boundaries matched by
     <TT
CLASS="parameter"
><I
>pattern</I
></TT
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>&#13;     If <TT
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>limit</I
></TT
> is specified, then only substrings up to
     <TT
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>limit</I
></TT
> are returned, and if
     <TT
CLASS="parameter"
><I
>limit</I
></TT
> is -1, it actually means "no limit", which is
     useful for specifying the <TT
CLASS="parameter"
><I
>flags</I
></TT
>.
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>&#13;     <TT
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><I
>flags</I
></TT
> can be any combination of the following flags
     (combined with bitwise | operator):
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>PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY</DT
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>&#13;         If this flag is set, only non-empty pieces will be returned by
         <B
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>preg_split()</B
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>PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE</DT
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>&#13;         If this flag is set, parenthesized expression in the delimiter pattern
         will be captured and returned as well. This flag was added for 4.0.5.
         </P
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>PREG_SPLIT_OFFSET_CAPTURE</DT
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>&#13;          If this flag is set, for every occuring match the appendant string
          offset will also be returned. Note that this changes the return
          value in an array where every element is an array consisting of the
          matched string at offset <TT
CLASS="literal"
>0</TT
> and it's string offset
          into <TT
CLASS="parameter"
><I
>subject</I
></TT
> at offset <TT
CLASS="literal"
>1</TT
>.
          This flag is available since <TT
CLASS="literal"
>PHP</TT
> 4.3.0 .
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>Example 1. <B
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>preg_split()</B
> example : Get the parts of a search string.</B
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>// split the phrase by any number of commas or space characters,
// which include " ", \r, \t, \n and \f
$keywords = preg_split ("/[\s,]+/", "hypertext language, programming");</PRE
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>Example 2. Splitting a string into component characters.</B
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>$str = 'string';
$chars = preg_split('//', $str, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
print_r($chars);</PRE
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>Example 3. Splitting a string into matches and their offsets.</B
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>$str = 'hypertext language programming';
$chars = preg_split('/ /', $str, -1, PREG_SPLIT_OFFSET_CAPTURE);
print_r($chars);</PRE
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>&#13;     will yield
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>Array
(
    [0] =&#62; Array
        (
            [0] =&#62; hypertext
            [1] =&#62; 0
        )

    [1] =&#62; Array
        (
            [0] =&#62; language
            [1] =&#62; 10
        )

    [2] =&#62; Array
        (
            [0] =&#62; programming
            [1] =&#62; 19
        )

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>&#13;     See also 
     <A
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><B
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>spliti()</B
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>,
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CLASS="function"
>split()</B
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>,
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><B
CLASS="function"
>implode()</B
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>,
      <A
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><B
CLASS="function"
>preg_match()</B
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>,
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><B
CLASS="function"
>preg_match_all()</B
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>preg_replace()</B
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