Comma Delimiter Question

[foochuck]

I'm using the explode function...

 

$pizza  = "piece1,piece2,piece3,piece4,piece5,piece6";
$pieces = explode(",", $pizza);
echo $pieces[0]; // piece1

 

I would like to include an actual comma "," in the pizza variable and have it appear in the string. For example I want:

 

"piece,1,piece,2,piece,3,piece,4,piece,5,piece,6";

 

This isn't the real working sample. Anyway, my main question is how do I escape the actual commas so they are kept in the strings and distinguished from the delimiter commas???

 

Thanks

 

FOO

[DarkWater]

Put a \ before them and then use:

 

split('[^\],', $pizza);

[foochuck]

The code I'm using already has

 

$data = explode(",", trim($item['data']));

 

throughout...

 

I don't want to break the code using split...

[DarkWater]

Just switch all the explode()'s to split().  It's the only way to do it in this case because you need regular expressions.