Explode on special character?

[Kane250]

Any way to explode on bullets?  I know it's a special character, but I can't figure it out 

 

$manyItems = "• the first thing • the second thing • the third thing •  etc •  etc";

//This doesn't work
$items = explode("•", $manyItems);

//Neither does this
$items = explode("•", $manyItems);

 

Any suggestions?  Thanks in advance!

[silkfire]

It does work mate, you're doing something wrong probably. Try maybe like this:

 

<?
   $manyItems = '• the first thing • the second thing • the third thing •  etc •  etc';

   //This does work
   $items = explode(chr(149), $manyItems);

   print_r($items);
?>

[Kane250]

Did you test that?  For me it just throws everything into the first array index...

[HuggieBear]

The same code works for me too.

[Kane250]

I get this output:

 

Items Array ( [0] => � the first thing � the second thing � the third thing � etc � etc ) 

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Your original data is Unicode/UTF-8 encoded.

 

Do you want it to be that way or can you convert it to ISO-8859-1 which is what the code that works in this thread is using?

[Kane250]

Well the website it's being displayed on is in a UTF-8 character set.  Is it easy to convert? 

[PFMaBiSmAd]

In that case, convert the character to match what the data is -

 

$items = explode(utf8_encode('•'), $manyItems);
print_r($items);

[Kane250]

Ahh, that did the trick!  Thanks!