php explode for a special case

Question

I have a huge text file which I want to explode into an array.

The words in it doesnt have spaces, but each word starts with a capital letter.

How can I explode it to an array taking the capital letters as seperator,without losing the charector?

AppleBallCat should be 1 => Apple 2=> Ball 3=> Cat

Seems like a duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6920155/how-does-one-break-a-string-down-by-capital-letters-with-php — kijin, Mar 30 '12 at 01:45
possible duplicate of [PHP explode the string, but treat words in quotes as a single word](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2202435/php-explode-the-string-but-treat-words-in-quotes-as-a-single-word) — , Mar 30 '12 at 02:20

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 30 '12 at 01:45

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$s = 'AppleBallCat';
$a = preg_split('/(?=[A-Z])/', $s);
unset($a[0]);
var_dump($a);

array(3) {
  [1]=>
  string(5) "Apple"
  [2]=>
  string(4) "Ball"
  [3]=>
  string(3) "Cat"
}

answered Mar 30 '12 at 01:45

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