Sophie: php-manual-en-4.3.0-2mdk noarch

php-manual-en-4.3.0-2mdk.noarch.rpm

<HTML
><HEAD
><TITLE
>split</TITLE
><META
NAME="GENERATOR"
CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK
REL="HOME"
TITLE="PHP Manual"
HREF="index.html"><LINK
REL="UP"
TITLE="Regular Expression Functions (POSIX Extended)"
HREF="ref.regex.html"><LINK
REL="PREVIOUS"
TITLE="eregi"
HREF="function.eregi.html"><LINK
REL="NEXT"
TITLE="spliti"
HREF="function.spliti.html"><META
HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type"
CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD
><BODY
CLASS="refentry"
BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"
TEXT="#000000"
LINK="#0000FF"
VLINK="#840084"
ALINK="#0000FF"
><DIV
CLASS="NAVHEADER"
><TABLE
SUMMARY="Header navigation table"
WIDTH="100%"
BORDER="0"
CELLPADDING="0"
CELLSPACING="0"
><TR
><TH
COLSPAN="3"
ALIGN="center"
>PHP Manual</TH
></TR
><TR
><TD
WIDTH="10%"
ALIGN="left"
VALIGN="bottom"
><A
HREF="function.eregi.html"
ACCESSKEY="P"
>Prev</A
></TD
><TD
WIDTH="80%"
ALIGN="center"
VALIGN="bottom"
></TD
><TD
WIDTH="10%"
ALIGN="right"
VALIGN="bottom"
><A
HREF="function.spliti.html"
ACCESSKEY="N"
>Next</A
></TD
></TR
></TABLE
><HR
ALIGN="LEFT"
WIDTH="100%"></DIV
><H1
><A
NAME="function.split"
></A
>split</H1
><DIV
CLASS="refnamediv"
><A
NAME="AEN82123"
></A
><P
>    (PHP 3, PHP 4 )</P
>split&nbsp;--&nbsp;split string into array by regular expression</DIV
><DIV
CLASS="refsect1"
><A
NAME="AEN82126"
></A
><H2
>Description</H2
>array <B
CLASS="methodname"
>split</B
> ( string pattern, string string [, int limit])<BR
></BR
><DIV
CLASS="note"
><BLOCKQUOTE
CLASS="note"
><P
><B
>Note: </B
>
      <A
HREF="function.preg-split.html"
><B
CLASS="function"
>preg_split()</B
></A
>, which uses a Perl-compatible 
      regular expression syntax, is often a faster alternative to
      <B
CLASS="function"
>split()</B
>.
     </P
></BLOCKQUOTE
></DIV
><P
>&#13;     Returns an array of strings, each of which is a substring of
     <TT
CLASS="parameter"
><I
>string</I
></TT
> formed by splitting it on
     boundaries formed by the regular expression
     <TT
CLASS="parameter"
><I
>pattern</I
></TT
>.  If <TT
CLASS="parameter"
><I
>limit</I
></TT
>
     is set, the returned array will contain a maximum of
     <TT
CLASS="parameter"
><I
>limit</I
></TT
> elements with the last element
     containing the whole rest of <TT
CLASS="parameter"
><I
>string</I
></TT
>.  If
     an error occurs, <B
CLASS="function"
>split()</B
> returns <TT
CLASS="constant"
><B
>FALSE</B
></TT
>.
    </P
><P
>&#13;     To split off the first four fields from a line from
     <TT
CLASS="filename"
>/etc/passwd</TT
>:
     <TABLE
WIDTH="100%"
BORDER="0"
CELLPADDING="0"
CELLSPACING="0"
CLASS="EXAMPLE"
><TR
><TD
><DIV
CLASS="example"
><A
NAME="AEN82154"
></A
><P
><B
>Example 1. <B
CLASS="function"
>split()</B
> Example</B
></P
><TABLE
BORDER="0"
BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0"
CELLPADDING="5"
><TR
><TD
><PRE
CLASS="php"
>list($user,$pass,$uid,$gid,$extra)= split (":", $passwd_line, 5);</PRE
></TD
></TR
></TABLE
></DIV
></TD
></TR
></TABLE
>
    </P
><DIV
CLASS="note"
><BLOCKQUOTE
CLASS="note"
><P
><B
>Note: </B
>
      If there are <TT
CLASS="replaceable"
><I
>n</I
></TT
> occurrences of
      <TT
CLASS="parameter"
><I
>pattern</I
></TT
>, the returned array will contain
      <TT
CLASS="literal"
><TT
CLASS="replaceable"
><I
>n</I
></TT
>+1</TT
> items. For example, if
      there is no occurrence of <TT
CLASS="parameter"
><I
>pattern</I
></TT
>, an array with
      only one element will be returned. Of course, this is also true if
      <TT
CLASS="parameter"
><I
>string</I
></TT
> is empty.
     </P
></BLOCKQUOTE
></DIV
><P
>&#13;     To parse a date which may be delimited with slashes, dots, or
     hyphens:
     <TABLE
WIDTH="100%"
BORDER="0"
CELLPADDING="0"
CELLSPACING="0"
CLASS="EXAMPLE"
><TR
><TD
><DIV
CLASS="example"
><A
NAME="AEN82167"
></A
><P
><B
>Example 2. <B
CLASS="function"
>split()</B
> Example</B
></P
><TABLE
BORDER="0"
BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0"
CELLPADDING="5"
><TR
><TD
><PRE
CLASS="php"
>$date = "04/30/1973";  // Delimiters may be slash, dot, or hyphen
list ($month, $day, $year) = split ('[/.-]', $date);
echo "Month: $month; Day: $day; Year: $year&#60;br&#62;\n";</PRE
></TD
></TR
></TABLE
></DIV
></TD
></TR
></TABLE
>
    </P
><P
>&#13;     Note that <TT
CLASS="parameter"
><I
>pattern</I
></TT
> is case-sensitive.
    </P
><P
>&#13;     Note that if you don't require the power of regular expressions,
     it is faster to use <A
HREF="function.explode.html"
><B
CLASS="function"
>explode()</B
></A
>, which doesn't
     incur the overhead of the regular expression engine.
    </P
><P
>&#13;     For users looking for a way to emulate Perl's <B
CLASS="command"
>@chars =
      split('', $str)</B
> behaviour, please see the examples for
     <A
HREF="function.preg-split.html"
><B
CLASS="function"
>preg_split()</B
></A
>.
    </P
><P
>&#13;     Please note that <TT
CLASS="parameter"
><I
>pattern</I
></TT
> is a regular
     expression.  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 <B
CLASS="function"
>split()</B
> (or
     any other regex function, for that matter) is doing something
     weird, please read the file <TT
CLASS="filename"
>regex.7</TT
>,
     included in the <TT
CLASS="filename"
>regex/</TT
> subdirectory of the
     PHP distribution. It's in manpage format, so you'll want to do
     something along the lines of <B
CLASS="command"
>man
     /usr/local/src/regex/regex.7</B
> in order to read it.
    </P
><P
>&#13;     See also: 
     <A
HREF="function.preg-split.html"
><B
CLASS="function"
>preg_split()</B
></A
>,
      <A
HREF="function.spliti.html"
><B
CLASS="function"
>spliti()</B
></A
>,
     <A
HREF="function.explode.html"
><B
CLASS="function"
>explode()</B
></A
>, 
     <A
HREF="function.implode.html"
><B
CLASS="function"
>implode()</B
></A
>,
     <A
HREF="function.chunk-split.html"
><B
CLASS="function"
>chunk_split()</B
></A
>, and 
     <A
HREF="function.wordwrap.html"
><B
CLASS="function"
>wordwrap()</B
></A
>.
    </P
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="NAVFOOTER"
><HR
ALIGN="LEFT"
WIDTH="100%"><TABLE
SUMMARY="Footer navigation table"
WIDTH="100%"
BORDER="0"
CELLPADDING="0"
CELLSPACING="0"
><TR
><TD
WIDTH="33%"
ALIGN="left"
VALIGN="top"
><A
HREF="function.eregi.html"
ACCESSKEY="P"
>Prev</A
></TD
><TD
WIDTH="34%"
ALIGN="center"
VALIGN="top"
><A
HREF="index.html"
ACCESSKEY="H"
>Home</A
></TD
><TD
WIDTH="33%"
ALIGN="right"
VALIGN="top"
><A
HREF="function.spliti.html"
ACCESSKEY="N"
>Next</A
></TD
></TR
><TR
><TD
WIDTH="33%"
ALIGN="left"
VALIGN="top"
>eregi</TD
><TD
WIDTH="34%"
ALIGN="center"
VALIGN="top"
><A
HREF="ref.regex.html"
ACCESSKEY="U"
>Up</A
></TD
><TD
WIDTH="33%"
ALIGN="right"
VALIGN="top"
>spliti</TD
></TR
></TABLE
></DIV
></BODY
></HTML
>