Split a string

[dreamwest]

How can i split a string into individual words:

 

Original string:

she walks down the street

 

Split string:

she<br>
walks<br>
down<br>
the<br>
street<br>

[corbin]

http://php.net/explode

 

 

Or, if you want to replace \n (or \r\n) with <br>, you could just use http://php.net/str_replace.

[drisate]

$words = explode (' ', $string);

foreach ($words as $loop){

echo $loop."<br>";

}

 

or

 

echo str_replace(' ', '<br>', $string);

 

cheers

[Zane]

There is also str_word_count....which I just found out about. Which only really saves you the trouble of exploding by space....kinda redundant.

 

foreach(str_word_count($words) as $word)
   echo $word . "
\n";

[dreamwest]

Im having no luck with this:

 

$search= "smarter than yogi";

foreach(str_word_count($search) as $word)

$display= $word; 

echo $display;

 

I get this error:

 

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /mounted-storage/home/sub/sc-TQLI/XXXXXXXX.com/1.php on line 17

[Zane]

my badd

should be

 

foreach(str_word_count($search, 1) as $word)

[dreamwest]

my badd

should be

 

foreach(str_word_count($search, 1) as $word)

 

Tried it but only displays the last word in the string

[Zane]

really drisate's approach is a better method...and the most common...I was just pointing out another function. for gits and shiggles.

 

but the reason it's only showing the last one is because you aren't concatenating

 

this

$display= $word;

 

needs to be

$display .= $word;

 

note the period in front of the equals sign......that's a concat operator

[Daniel0]

$words = explode (' ', $string);

foreach ($words as $loop){

echo $loop."<br>";

}

 

FYI, there is a function called implode/join, which does the reverse of explode, so echo implode('<br>', explode(' ', $words)).'<br>'; would do what you are doing.

 

Replacing spaces using str_replace is better in this case though.

[dreamwest]

Works!  Thanks

 

Ive seen the concat operator around but assumed it was a joiner not a loop joiner (similar to while loop)