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preg_split() is a PHP function which allows splitting a string using a regular expression.

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empty return preg_split [how]?

i have string like this $string = '$foo$wow$123$$$ok$'; i want to return empty string and save string in array like this 0 = foo 1 = wow 2 = 123 3 = 4 = 5 = ok i use PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY, i know when make PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY return is not empty,…
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Trying to dynamically write a table with PHP based on SQL Query

I started learning learning PHP a couple of days ago and have started to make an SQL Database management webpage using AJAX. I am having a problem with errors if I restrict the search to less than all [*] the column's. Because of this I thought it…
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php preg split a string

I have a numeric string and I'd need to split it in groups of 2 starting from right, but not more than three groups. To understand, the 3 groups are 'copper', 'silver' and 'gold' and the starting value is a synthetic money amount. For example: 10…
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How to stop splitting within a pair of second delimiter in preg_split (PHP)?

I need to generate an array with preg_split, as implode('', $array) can re-generate the original string. `preg_split of $str = 'this is a test "some quotations is her" and more'; $array = preg_split('/( |".*?")/', $str, -1,…
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Explode string by semicolon using php's preg_split

I have this string (it's an apple .strings file): /* this is a comment line; it may contain semicolons */ "you have here some text; also may contain semicolons" = "some other text;"; /* this is a comment line; it may contain semicolons */ "you have…
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preg_split does not work with price extraction

I have these types of possible content in the strings I'm breaking up: $string = "$100 USD per year" $string = "$100USD per year" $string = "100 USD per year" $string = "100EUR per year" $string = "€100EUR per year" $string = "€100 EUR per…
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preg_split url with a regular expression

I have an string e.g.: src="http://www.domain.com/sub_folder/xyz_17215_andso_on_01-file_08.html" and want to split this at every character that is not a letter or number. With /[a-z0-9]/ I get an array with all the characters but what's the…
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Replace only the second html tag

I want to replace the second h2 tag to h3 and I hope someone can help me with a replacement regex, or maybe a preg_split - I am not exactly sure. For example, this:

My text one

My text two

text …

My text three

Should…
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php preg_split seems to crash on large strings

I have been trying to load the USDA nutritional data into a mysql database from the ascii version of the data. I used the scripts from here and everything came in except the NUT_DATA.txt file which is ~34MB in size. The file loads correctly using…
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preg_split with regex giving incorrect output

I'm using preg_split to an string, but I'm not getting desired output. For example $string = 'Tachycardia limit_from:1900-01-01 limit_to:2027-08-29 numresults:10 sort:publication-date direction:descending facet-on-toc-section-id:Case Reports'; $vals…
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Print_r is not working with preg_split

I writing a function to search within my database. I wanted to eliminate uneccessary white spaces between words so I used preg_split. I have not used preg split before so I used print_r to see if it did what I was hoping for it to do (elimminate…
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preg_split() Regex for Initials Lastname

I have a name pattern looking like this: F. O. O. Bar F. Oobar F. O. Obar I'm currently trying to develop a regex that lets me split names in firstname, maybe initials and surname according to one of these. foreach($authors as $author) { $arr =…
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string to array, split by single and double quotes, ignoring escaped quotes

i have another php preg_split question which is very similar to my last question, although i fear the solution will be quite a bit more complicated. as before, i'm trying to use php to split a string into array components using either " or ' as the…
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php regex changing split to preg_split - specific example

Lots of questions similar but I have a specific example I would like some help with please. Migrating older php 5.2 code to 5.3 for($s=0;$s
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preg_split at the line before an item

I'm creating a automatic email response, but I don't want to show the original email in the response. There is a line in the email that they must respond above. But email programs add a line like "On Aug 21, 2012, at 11:30 PM, David wrote:" before…
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