PHP regex expression for preg_split with multiple periods

Asked Aug 13 '13 at 23:35

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I have some text which I need to split into 2 elements based on delimiters "-:." (dash, colon or period) The below works for me :

$exploded_val = preg_split( "/[-:\.]/", $orig_val );

Problem is that some of the text have multiple periods, in which case it doesn't work. Can you help please? example text "Statue of Liberty....North America" "Leaning tower-pisa" "great wall:china"

asked Aug 13 '13 at 23:35

SIndhu

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`/[-:\.]+/` adding the `+` will make the expression match 1 or more. – Jonathan Kuhn Aug 13 '13 at 23:37
If it is only multiple periods that you are after, you can try /([-:]|\.+)/ – quentinadam Aug 13 '13 at 23:39
Btw, you need a double back-slash in front of the period when it is in a string. – quentinadam Aug 13 '13 at 23:40
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@goldmine: but you need _none_ in a character class ;) – Wrikken Aug 13 '13 at 23:41

PHP regex expression for preg_split with multiple periods

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