My variable like this,
$a = "A1|A2|A3|";
so how to convert php array?
to this,
$a=array("A1","A2","A3");
6 Answers 6
First, trim off the pipe at the end of your input.
$str = rtrim($a, '|');
Then, explode on the pipe.
$a = explode('|', $str);
Alternatively, do the split normally and then filter out the whitespace entries as a post-processing step.
$a = array_filter($a, 'strlen');
answered Aug 21, 2014 at 7:14
alex
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Bhavik Shah
+1 Only correct answer on this question. Without trimming last pipe, you will get empty element in array. I don't understand how other answers has got upvote.
Use explode function.
$a = rtrim("|", $a);
$a = explode('|', $a);
print_r($a);
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answered Aug 21, 2014 at 7:14
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Bhavik Shah
check @alex answer. You need to trim the last
| or else you will get last empty element in array.You can do achieve what you want to this way:
$a = "A1|A2|A3|";
$a = rtrim($a, '|'); // Trimming the final |
$exploded = explode("|", $a); // Extracting the values from string.
var_dump($exploded);
Hope it answers your question. Refer rtrim and explode on official documentation site for more relevant details.
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Bhavik Shah
+1 for trimming the last pipe and mentioning comments as well in answer.
$a = "A1|A2|A3|";
$newA = explode("|",$a);
print_r($newA);
answered Aug 21, 2014 at 7:15
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Bhavik Shah
check @alex answer. You need to trim the last | or else you will get last empty element in array.
$a = "A1|A2|A3|";
print_r(array_filter(explode("|", $a)));
answered Jan 9, 2015 at 11:14
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$a=explode('|',$a);
Check this link
explode — Split a string by string
Description: array explode ( string $delimiter , string $string [, int $limit = PHP_INT_MAX ] )
answered Aug 21, 2014 at 7:14
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Bhavik Shah
check @alex answer. You need to trim the last | or else you will get last empty element in array.
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$a = explode('|', $a);It's one of the functions most people learn before anything else