preg_replace
To clarify the "limit" parameter and the PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE option,
<?php
$preg_split('(/ /)', '1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8', 4 ,PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE );
?>
returns:
('1', ' ', '2', ' ' , '3', ' ', '4 5 6 7 8')
So you actually get 7 array items not 4
preg_split
(PHP 4, PHP 5)
preg_split — Divide una cadena mediante una expresión regular
Descripción
array preg_split
( string
$pattern
, string $subject
[, int $limit = -1
[, int $flags = 0
]] )Divide la cadena dada mediante una expresión regular.
Parámetros
-
pattern -
El patrón de búsqueda, como cadena.
-
subject -
La cadena de entrada.
-
limit -
Si se especifica, entonces sólo las sub-cadenas hasta
limitson devueltas, con el resto de la cadena siendo colocada en la última sub-cadena. Silimitvale -1, 0 oNULLsignifica "sin límite" y, como es un estándar en PHP, puede usarNULLpara saltar hacia el parámetroflags. -
flags -
flagspuede ser una combinación de las siguientes banderas (combinadas con el operador | a nivel de bits):-
PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY - Si se aplica esta bandera, sólo los elementos no vacíos serán devueltos por preg_split().
-
PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE - Si se aplica esta bandera, las expresiones entre paréntesis en el patrón delimitador serán capturadas y devueltas.
-
PREG_SPLIT_OFFSET_CAPTURE -
Si se aplica esta bandera, por cada coincidencia producida, el índice de la cadena añadida también será devuelto. Observe que esto cambia el valor devuelto dentro de una matriz donde cada elemento es una matriz consistente en la cadena coincidente en el índice 0 y su índice de cadena dentro de
subjecten el índice 1.
-
Valores devueltos
Devuelve una matriz que contiene sub-cadenas de subject
dividido por los límites coincidentes de pattern.
Historial de cambios
| Versión | Descripción |
|---|---|
| 4.3.0 |
Se añadió PREG_SPLIT_OFFSET_CAPTURE
|
| 4.0.5 |
Se añadió PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE
|
Ejemplos
Ejemplo #1 Ejemplo de preg_split() : Obtiene las partes de una cadena de búsqueda
<?php
// divide la frase mediante cualquier número de comas o caracteres de espacio,
// lo que incluye " ", \r, \t, \n y \f
$claves = preg_split("/[\s,]+/", "lenguaje de hipertexto, programación");
print_r($claves);
?>
El resultado del ejemplo sería:
Array
(
[0] => lenguaje
[1] => de
[2] => hipertexto
[3] => programación
)
Ejemplo #2 Dividir una cadena en sus caracteres constituyentes
<?php
$cadena = 'cadena';
$caracteres = preg_split('//', $cadena, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
print_r($caracteres);
?>
El resultado del ejemplo sería:
Array
(
[0] => c
[1] => a
[2] => d
[3] => e
[4] => n
[5] => a
)
Ejemplo #3 Dividir una cadena mediante coincidencias y sus índices
<?php
$cadena = 'lenguaje de programación hipertexto';
$caracteres = preg_split('/ /', $cadena, -1, PREG_SPLIT_OFFSET_CAPTURE);
print_r($caracteres);
?>
El resultado del ejemplo sería:
Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[0] => lenguaje
[1] => 0
)
[1] => Array
(
[0] => de
[1] => 9
)
[2] => Array
(
[0] => programación
[1] => 12
)
[3] => Array
(
[0] => hipertexto
[1] => 25
)
)
Notas
Sugerencia
Si no necesita la potencia de expresiones regulares, puede optar por alternativas más rápidas (no obstante más sencillas) como explode() o str_split().
Ver también
- Patrones de PCRE
- implode() - Une elementos de un array en un string
- preg_match() - Realiza una comparación con una expresión regular
- preg_match_all() - Realiza una comparación global de una expresión regular
- preg_replace() - Realiza una búsqueda y sustitución de una expresión regular
- preg_last_error() - Devuelve el código de error de la última ejecución de expresión regular PCRE
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User Contributed Notes
preg_split - [22 notes]
jetsoft at iinet.net.au ¶
8 years ago
jan dot sochor at icebolt dot info ¶
3 years ago
Sometimes PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE does strange results.
<?php
$content = '<strong>Lorem ipsum dolor</strong> sit <img src="test.png" />amet <span class="test" style="color:red">consec<i>tet</i>uer</span>.';
$chars = preg_split('/<[^>]*[^\/]>/i', $content, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY | PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE);
print_r($chars);
?>
Produces:
Array
(
[0] => Lorem ipsum dolor
[1] => sit <img src="test.png" />amet
[2] => consec
[3] => tet
[4] => uer
)
So that the delimiter patterns are missing. If you wanna get these patters remember to use parentheses.
<?php
$chars = preg_split('/(<[^>]*[^\/]>)/i', $content, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY | PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE);
print_r($chars); //parentheses added
?>
Produces:
Array
(
[0] => <strong>
[1] => Lorem ipsum dolor
[2] => </strong>
[3] => sit <img src="test.png" />amet
[4] => <span class="test" style="color:red">
[5] => consec
[6] => <i>
[7] => tet
[8] => </i>
[9] => uer
[10] => </span>
[11] => .
)
eric at clarinova dot com ¶
1 year ago
Here is another way to split a CamelCase string, which is a simpler expression than the one using lookaheads and lookbehinds:
preg_split('/([[:upper:]][[:lower:]]+)/', $last, null, PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE|PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY)
It makes the entire CamelCased word the delimiter, then returns the delimiters (PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE) and omits the empty values between the delimiters (PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY)
PhoneixSegovia at gmail dot com ¶
2 years ago
You must be caution when using lookbehind to a variable match.
For example:
'/(?<!\\\)\r?\n)/'
to match a new line when not \ is before it don't go as spected as it match \r as the lookbehind (becouse isn't a \) and is optional before \n.
You must use this for example:
'/((?<!\\\|\r)\n)|((?<!\\\)\r\n)/'
That match a alone \n (not preceded by \r or \) or a \r\n not preceded by a \.
Steve ¶
8 years ago
preg_split() behaves differently from perl's split() if the string ends with a delimiter. This perl snippet will print 5:
my @a = split(/ /, "a b c d e ");
print scalar @a;
The corresponding php code prints 6:
<?php print count(preg_split("/ /", "a b c d e ")); ?>
This is not necessarily a bug (nowhere does the documentation say that preg_split() behaves the same as perl's split()) but it might surprise perl programmers.
buzoganylaszlo at yahoo dot com ¶
3 years ago
Extending m.timmermans's solution, you can use the following code as a search expression parser:
<?php
$search_expression = "apple bear \"Tom Cruise\" or 'Mickey Mouse' another word";
$words = preg_split("/[\s,]*\\\"([^\\\"]+)\\\"[\s,]*|" . "[\s,]*'([^']+)'[\s,]*|" . "[\s,]+/", $search_expression, 0, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY | PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE);
print_r($words);
?>
The result will be:
Array
(
[0] => apple
[1] => bear
[2] => Tom Cruise
[3] => or
[4] => Mickey Mouse
[5] => another
[6] => word
)
1. Accepted delimiters: white spaces (space, tab, new line etc.) and commas.
2. You can use either simple (') or double (") quotes for expressions which contains more than one word.
wf ¶
4 years ago
Spacing out your CamelCase using preg_replace:
<?php
function spacify($camel, $glue = ' ') {
return preg_replace( '/([a-z0-9])([A-Z])/', "$1$glue$2", $camel );
}
echo spacify('CamelCaseWords'), "\n"; // 'Camel Case Words'
echo spacify('camelCaseWords'), "\n"; // 'camel Case Words'
?>
Daniel Schroeder ¶
2 years ago
If you want to split by a char, but want to ignore that char in case it is escaped, use a lookbehind assertion.
In this example a string will be split by ":" but "\:" will be ignored:
<?php
$string='a:b:c\:d';
$array=preg_split('#(?<!\\\)\:#',$string);
print_r($array);
?>
Results into:
Array
(
[0] => a
[1] => b
[2] => c\:d
)
nesbert at gmail dot com ¶
3 years ago
Hope this helps someone...
<?php
/**
* Split a string into groups of words with a line no longer than $max
* characters.
*
* @param string $string
* @param integer $max
* @return array
**/
function split_words($string, $max = 1)
{
$words = preg_split('/\s/', $string);
$lines = array();
$line = '';
foreach ($words as $k => $word) {
$length = strlen($line . ' ' . $word);
if ($length <= $max) {
$line .= ' ' . $word;
} else if ($length > $max) {
if (!empty($line)) $lines[] = trim($line);
$line = $word;
} else {
$lines[] = trim($line) . ' ' . $word;
$line = '';
}
}
$lines[] = ($line = trim($line)) ? $line : $word;
return $lines;
}
?>
php at dmi dot me dot uk ¶
3 years ago
To split a camel-cased string using preg_split() with lookaheads and lookbehinds:
<?php
function splitCamelCase($str) {
return preg_split('/(?<=\\w)(?=[A-Z])/', $str);
}
?>
Peter -the pete- de Pijd ¶
3 years ago
If you want to use something like explode(PHP_EOL, $string) but for all combinations of \r and \n, try this one:
<?php
$text = "A\nB\rC\r\nD\r\rE\n\nF";
$texts = preg_split("/((\r(?!\n))|((?<!\r)\n)|(\r\n))/", $text);
?>
result:
array("A", "B", "C", "D", "", "E", "", "F");
kenorb at gmail dot com ¶
4 years ago
If you need convert function arguments without default default values and references, you can try this code:
<?php
$func_args = '$node, $op, $a3 = NULL, $form = array(), $a4 = NULL'
$call_arg = preg_match_all('@(?<func_arg>\$[^,= ]+)@i', $func_args, $matches);
$call_arg = implode(',', $matches['func_arg']);
?>
Result: string = "$node,$op,$a3,$form,$a4"
csaba at alum dot mit dot edu ¶
4 years ago
If the task is too complicated for preg_split, preg_match_all might come in handy, since preg_split is essentially a special case.
I wanted to split a string on a certain character (asterisk), but only if it wasn't escaped (by a preceding backslash). Thus, I should ensure an even number of backslashes before any asterisk meant as a splitter. Look-behind in a regular expression wouldn't work since the length of the preceding backslash sequence can't be fixed. So I turned to preg_match_all:
<?php
// split a string at unescaped asterisks
// where backslash is the escape character
$splitter = "/\\*((?:[^\\\\*]|\\\\.)*)/";
preg_match_all($splitter, "*$string", $aPieces, PREG_PATTERN_ORDER);
$aPieces = $aPieces[1];
// $aPieces now contains the exploded string
// and unescaping can be safely done on each piece
foreach ($aPieces as $idx=>$piece)
$aPieces[$idx] = preg_replace("/\\\\(.)/s", "$1", $piece);
?>
anajilly ¶
4 years ago
<?php
$s = '<p>bleh blah</p><p style="one">one two three</p>';
$htmlbits = preg_split('/(<p( style="[-:a-z0-9 ]+")?>|<\/p>)/i', $s, -1, PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE);
print_r($htmlbits);
?>
Array
(
[0] =>
[1] => <p>
[2] => bleh blah
[3] => </p>
[4] =>
[5] => <p style="one">
[6] => style="one"
[7] => one two three
[8] => </p>
[9] =>
)
two interesting bits:
1. When using PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE, if you use more than one pair of parentheses, the result array can have members representing all pairs. See array indexes 5 and 6 to see two adjacent delimiter results in which the second is a subset match of the first.
2. If a parenthesised sub-expression is made optional by a following question mark (ex: '/abc (optional subregex)?/') some split delimiters may be captured in the result while others are not. See array indexes 1 and 2 to see an instance where the overall match succeeded and returned a delimiter while the optional sub-expression '( style="[-:a-z0-9 ]+")?' did not match, and did not return a delimiter. This means it's possible to have a result with an unpredictable number of delimiters in the result array.
This second aspect is true irrespective of the number of pairs of parentheses in the regex. This means: in a regular expression with a single optional parenthesised sub-expression, the overall expression can match without generating a corresponding delimiter in the result.
w o z 2 2 a t y a h o o d o t c o m ¶
1 year ago
PREG_SPLIT_OFFSET_CAPTURE should be maintained for UTF-8 characters, because it produces wrong results as if it is using strlen() internally, instead of using mb_strlen(), which is the right one...
david dot binovec at gmail dot com ¶
1 year ago
Limit = 1 may be confusing. The important thing is that in case of limit equals to 1 will produce only ONE substring. Ergo the only one substring will be the first one as well as the last one. Tnat the rest of the string (after the first delimiter) will be placed to the last substring. But last is the first and only one.
<?php
$output = $preg_split('(/ /)', '1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8', 1);
echo $output[0] //will return whole string!;
$output = $preg_split('(/ /)', '1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8', 2);
echo $output[0] //will return 1;
echo $output[1] //will return '2 3 4 5 6 7 8';
?>
sergei dot garrison at gmail dot com ¶
3 years ago
If you need to split a list of "tags" while allowing for user error, you'll find this more useful than the manual's first example.
<?php
$string = 'one, two,three, four , five,six seven';
$array = preg_split("/[\s]*[,][\s]*/", $string);
print_r($array);
// Array ( [0] => one [1] => two [2] => three [3] => four [4] => five [5] => six seven )
?>
This splits the string *only* by commas, regardless of how many spaces there are on either side of any comma.
dave at codewhore dot org ¶
11 years ago
The above description for PREG_SPLIT_OFFSET_CAPTURE may be a bit confusing.
When the flag is or'd into the 'flags' parameter of preg_split, each match is returned in the form of a two-element array. For each of the two-element arrays, the first element is the matched string, while the second is the match's zero-based offset in the input string.
For example, if you called preg_split like this:
preg_split('/foo/', 'matchfoomatch', -1, PREG_SPLIT_OFFSET_CAPTURE);
it would return an array of the form:
Array(
[0] => Array([0] => "match", [1] => 0),
[1] => Array([1] => "match", [1] => 8)
)
Note that or'ing in PREG_DELIM_CAPTURE along with PREG_SPLIT_OFFSET_CAPTURE works as well.
chris AT cmbuckley DOT co DOT uk ¶
4 years ago
Here's a helpful function to space out your CamelCase using preg_split:
<?php
function spacify($camel, $glue = ' ') {
return $camel[0] . substr(implode($glue, array_map('implode', array_chunk(preg_split('/([A-Z])/',
ucfirst($camel), -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY | PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE), 2))), 1);
}
echo spacify('CamelCaseWords'); // 'Camel Case Words'
echo spacify('camelCaseWords'); // 'camel Case Words'
?>
bit_kahuna at yahoo dot com ¶
4 years ago
how to display a shortened text string with an elipsis, but on word boundaries only.
<?php
function truncate($string, $max = 70, $rep = '...') {
$words = preg_split("/[\s]+/", $string);
$newstring = '';
$numwords = 0;
foreach ($words as $word) {
if ((strlen($newstring) + 1 + strlen($word)) < $max) {
$newstring .= ' '.$word;
++$numwords;
} else {
break;
}
}
if ($numwords < count($words)) {
$newstring .= $rep;
}
return $newstring;
}
?>
hope this helps someone! thanks for all the help from everyone else!!
m dot timmermans at home dot NOSPAM dot nl ¶
5 years ago
For people who want to use the double quote to group words/fields, kind of like CSV does, you can use the following expression:
<?php
$keywords = preg_split( "/[\s,]*\\\"([^\\\"]+)\\\"[\s,]*|[\s,]+/", "textline with, commas and \"quoted text\" inserted", 0, PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE );
?>
Which will result in:
Array
(
[0] => textline
[1] => with
[2] => commas
[3] => and
[4] => quoted text
[5] => inserted
)
crispytwo at yahoo dot com ¶
5 years ago
I was having trouble getting the PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE flag to work because I missed reading the "parenthesized expression" in the documentation :-(
So the pattern should look like:
/(A)/
not just
/A/
and it works as described/expected.