split(3) [php man page]

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split - Split string into array by regular expression

SYNOPSIS

       array split (string  $pattern, string  $string, [int  $limit = -1])

DESCRIPTION

	Splits a $string into array by regular expression.

       Warning

	      This function has been DEPRECATED as of PHP 5.3.0. Relying on this feature is highly discouraged.

PARAMETERS

	      o $pattern
		-  Case  sensitive  regular  expression.   If  you  want to split on any of the characters which are considered special by regular
		expressions, you'll need to escape them first. If you think split(3) (or any other regex function, for that matter) is doing some-
		thing weird, please read the file regex.7, included in the regex/ subdirectory of the PHP distribution. It's in manpage format, so
		you'll want to do something along the lines of man /usr/local/src/regex/regex.7 in order to read it.

	      o $string
		- The input string.

	      o $limit
		- If $limit is set, the returned array will contain a maximum of $limit elements with the last element containing the  whole  rest
		of $string.

RETURN VALUES

	Returns  an  array  of	strings, each of which is a substring of $string formed by splitting it on boundaries formed by the case-sensitive
       regular expression $pattern.

	If there are n occurrences of $pattern, the returned array will contain n+1 items. For example, if there is no occurrence of $pattern,	an
       array with only one element will be returned. Of course, this is also true if $string is empty. If an error occurs, split(3) returns FALSE.

EXAMPLES

       Example #1

	      split(3) example

	       To split off the first four fields from a line from /etc/passwd:

	      <?php
	      list($user, $pass, $uid, $gid, $extra) =
		  split(":", $passwd_line, 5);
	      ?>

       Example #2

	      split(3) example

	       To parse a date which may be delimited with slashes, dots, or hyphens:

	      <?php
	      // Delimiters may be slash, dot, or hyphen
	      $date = "04/30/1973";
	      list($month, $day, $year) = split('[/.-]', $date);
	      echo "Month: $month; Day: $day; Year: $year<br />
";
	      ?>

NOTES

       Note

	      As  of PHP 5.3.0, the regex extension is deprecated in favor of the PCRE extension. Calling this function will issue an E_DEPRECATED
	      notice. See the list of differences for help on converting to PCRE.

       Tip

	      split(3) is deprecated as of PHP 5.3.0. preg_split(3) is the suggested alternative to this function. If you don't require the  power
	      of regular expressions, it is faster to use explode(3), which doesn't incur the overhead of the regular expression engine.

       Tip

	       For  users  looking  for  a  way to emulate Perl's @chars = split('', $str) behaviour, please see the examples for preg_split(3) or
	      str_split(3).

SEE ALSO

       preg_split(3), spliti(3), str_split(3), explode(3), implode(3), chunk_split(3), wordwrap(3).

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textutil::split(n)				    Text and string utilities, macro processing 				textutil::split(n)

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NAME

       textutil::split - Procedures to split texts

SYNOPSIS

       package require Tcl  8.2

       package require textutil::split	?0.7?

       ::textutil::split::splitn string ?len?

       ::textutil::split::splitx string ?regexp?

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DESCRIPTION

       The package textutil::split provides commands that split strings by size and arbitrary regular expressions.

       The complete set of procedures is described below.

       ::textutil::split::splitn string ?len?
	      This  command  splits  the  given  string into chunks of len characters and returns a list containing these chunks. The argument len
	      defaults to 1 if none is specified. A negative length is not allowed and will cause the command to  throw  an  error.  Providing	an
	      empty  string as input is allowed, the command will then return an empty list. If the length of the string is not an entire multiple
	      of the chunk length, then the last chunk in the generated list will be shorter than len.

       ::textutil::split::splitx string ?regexp?
	      This command splits the string and return a list. The string is split according to the regular expression regexp instead of a simple
	      list  of	chars.	 Note  that if you parentheses are added into the regexp, the parentheses part of separator will be added into the
	      result list as additional element. If the string is empty the result is the empty list, like for	split.	If  regexp  is	empty  the
	      string is split at every character, like split does.  The regular expression regexp defaults to "[\t \r\n]+".

BUGS, IDEAS, FEEDBACK
       This document, and the package it describes, will undoubtedly contain bugs and other problems.  Please report such in the category textutil
       of the Tcllib SF Trackers [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12883].  Please also report any ideas for enhancements you may have for
       either package and/or documentation.

SEE ALSO

       regexp(n), split(n), string(n)

KEYWORDS

       regular expression, split, string

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