explode ain't exploding as expected

[cooldude832]

I'm trying to explode some stuff at the "<" character so I do

$temp = explode("<",$string);

but it ain't ripping apart the tags as I expected is it cause there is no space?

 

[GingerRobot]

Damn, i think i lent Barand my mind reader chip from my computer again.

 

Perhaps showing us some sample text in $string might help? Oh, and perhaps defining 'as i expected' would be useful too.

[cooldude832]

I just str_replaced the "<", " < " and got the results I expected so in conclusion explode matches whole word matches so to speak

[GingerRobot]

Im afraid your conclusion is incorrect.

 

<?php
$str = 'text<moretext';
foreach(explode('<',$str) as $v){
echo $v.'<br />';
}
?>

 

Produces exactly the same as:

 

<?php
$str = 'text < moretext';
foreach(explode('<',$str) as $v){
echo trim($v).'<br />';
}
?>