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Split String Per Character

Split String Per Character

Use this function to split a string per character. The function takes the string and a line ending as parameters.

Use this function to split a string per character.

<?php

function outputString($str, $line_end) 
	{
    // Set the variable that holds the string
    $str = "";

    // Use a for loop to grab each character
    for ($i = 0; $i < strlen($str); $i++) 
		{
		// This line cuts the string one character at a time
        $str .= substr($str, $i , 1) . $line_end;
		}

    // Return the '$str' variable
    return $str;
	}

// Here is the string we want to affect
$text = "This is an example string!";

// Finally print out the string 
print outputString($text, "
");


?>

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Comments: Split String Per Character

cixent Wed Nov 24, 2010 5:23 pm

I want to split

$text = "abcdefgh";

to

$text[0] = "a";
$text[1] = "b";
$text[2] = "c";
so on...

how?

mkeefe Wed Nov 24, 2010 11:06 pm

@cixent - In order to split a string into an array you would use the str_split() function. Here is an example using your sample string.



<?php



$text = "abcdefgh";

$text_split = str_split($text);



print_r($text_split);



?>

This would produce the following result:



Array

(

    [0] => a

    [1] => b

    [2] => c

    [3] => d

    [4] => e

    [5] => f

    [6] => g

    [7] => h

)

For more powerful string splitting you could use preg_split but not for simple matching, such as above.

Hope that helps.

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