PHP split alternative

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PHP is telling me that split is deprecated  what s the alternative method I should use

User · Accepted Answer

explode is an alternative  However  if you meant to split through a regular expression  the alternative is preg split instead

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split is deprecated since it is part of the family of functions which make use of POSIX regular expressions  that entire family is deprecated in favour of the PCRE  preg    functions    If you do not need the regular expression functionality  then explode is a very good choice  and would have been recommended over split even if that were not deprecated   if on the other hand you do need to use regular expressions then the PCRE alternate is simply preg split

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Had the same issue  but my code must work on both PHP 5  amp  PHP 7     Here is my piece of code  which solved this   Input a date in dmY format with one of delimiters      -    lt  php function DateToEN  date     if   date           list  d   m   y    function exists  split      split     -     date    preg split         -       date       return  y  -   m  -   d     else      return false          gt

User · Answer

Yes  I would use explode or you could use   preg split  Which is the advised method with PHP 6  preg split Documentation

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You can use the easier function preg match instead  It s better and faster than all of the other ones    var     lt tag gt Get this var lt  tag gt    preg match    lt tag gt      lt   tag gt      var    new var   echo  new var  1       Output  Get this var

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preg split if you need to split by regular expressions   str split if you need to split by characters   explode if you need to split by something simple    Also for the future  if you ever want to know what PHP wants you to use if something is deprecated you can always check out the function in the manual and it will tell you alternatives

User · Answer

If you want to split a string into words  you can use explode   or str word count

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I want to clear here that preg split    is far away from it but explode    can be used in similar way as split    following is the comparison between split    and explode    usage How was split   used  lt  php   date    quot 04 30 1973 quot   list  month   day   year    split     -     date   echo  month     foo echo  day       echo  year     gt   URL  http   php net manual en function split php How explode   can be used  lt  php   data    quot 04 30 1973 quot   list  month   day   year    explode  quot   quot    data   echo  month     foo echo  day       echo  year     gt   URL  http   php net manual en function explode php Here is how we can use it

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