separating words

[nick5449]

I have a group of words that are separated by a comma.  Such as "blah, blahblah blah".  I want to separate everything before and after the comma into two separate variables and also without the comma in there.  Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks for any help

[ShogunWarrior]

[code]
function strip_blanks($arr)
{
        foreach( $arr as $ki=>$val )
        {
                if(trim($val)=='')
                {unset($arr[$ki]);}
                else{$arr[$ki] = trim($val);}
        }return($arr);
}

//Replace String
$str = "Hello, this is a comma, separated, string with, comas!!";
$expl = explode(',',$str);
$stripped = strip_blanks($expl);
[/code]

Stripped will now contain:
[code]
Array
(
    [0] => Hello
    [1] => this is a comma
    [2] => separated
    [3] => string with
    [4] => comas!!
)
[/code]

[effigy]

A little more concise, and it removes surrounding whitespace:

[code]<?php
$str = "Hello, this is a comma, separated, string with, comas!!";
$array = preg_split('/\s*,\s*/', $str);
echo '<pre>', print_r($array, true), '</pre>';
?>[/code]

[ShogunWarrior]

Nice one.