Php multiple delimiters in explode

Question

Try about using:

$output = preg_split('/ (@|vs) /', $input);

You can take the first string, replace all the @ with vs using str_replace, then explode on vs or vice versa.

function multiexplode ($delimiters,$string) {

    $ready = str_replace($delimiters, $delimiters[0], $string);
    $launch = explode($delimiters[0], $ready);
    return  $launch;
}

$text = "here is a sample: this text, and this will be exploded. this also | this one too :)";


$exploded = multiexplode(array(",",".","|",":"),$text);

print_r($exploded);

//And output will be like this:
// Array
// (
//    [0] => here is a sample
//    [1] =>  this text
//    [2] =>  and this will be exploded
//    [3] =>  this also 
//    [4] =>  this one too 
//    [5] => )
// )

^{Source: php@metehanarslan at php.net}

How about using strtr() to substitute all of your other delimiters with the first one?

private function multiExplode($delimiters,$string) {
    return explode(
        $delimiters[0],
        strtr(
            $string,
            array_combine(
                array_slice(    $delimiters, 1  ),
                array_fill(
                    0,
                    count($delimiters)-1,
                    array_shift($delimiters)
                )
            )
        )
    );
}

It's sort of unreadable, I guess, but I tested it as working over here.

One-liners ftw!

Wouldn't strtok() work for you?

Simply you can use the following code:

$arr=explode('sep1',str_replace(array('sep2','sep3','sep4'),'sep1',$mystring));