Explode string by one or more spaces or tabs

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How can I explode a string by one or more spaces or tabs   Example    A      B      C      D   I want to make this an array

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OP it doesn t matter  you can just split on a space with explode  Until you want to use those values  iterate over the exploded values and discard blanks    str    A      B      C      D    s   explode      str   foreach   s as  a  gt  b           if   trim  b           print  using  b n

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This works    string    A   B C          D    arr   preg split     s       string

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Explode string by one or more spaces or tabs in php example as follow        lt  php          str    test1 test2   test3        test4            result   preg split     s       str          var dump  result           gt          To seperate by spaces alone           lt  php        string    p q r s t             res   preg split          string         var dump  res         gt

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instead of using explode  try preg split  http   www php net manual en function preg-split php

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The answers provided by other folks  Ben James  are quite good and I have used them  As user889030 points out  the last array element may be empty  Actually  the first and last array elements can be empty  The code below addresses both issues      Split an input string into an array of substrings using any set   whitespace characters function explode whitespace  str          Split the input string into an array    parts   preg split    s      str       Get the size of the array of substrings    sizeParts   sizeof  parts       Check if the last element of the array is a zero-length string   if   sizeParts  gt  0         lastPart    parts  sizeParts-1       if   lastPart                array pop  parts          sizeParts--              Check if the first element of the array is a zero-length string     if   sizeParts  gt  0           firstPart    parts 0         if   firstPart                 array shift  parts                return  parts

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parts   preg split    s      str

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In order to account for full width space such as  full width   you can extend Bens answer to this    searchValues   preg split     s    u    searchString     Sources    strip out multi-byte white space from a string PHP What are all the Japanese whitespace characters     I don t have enough reputation to post a comment  so I m wrote this as an answer

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The author asked for explode  to you can use explode like this   resultArray   explode   t    inputString    Note  you must used double quote  not single

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To separate by tabs     comp   preg split     t      var     To separate by spaces tabs newlines    comp   preg split    s      var     To seperate by spaces alone    comp   preg split          var

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I think you want preg split    input    A  B C   D    words   preg split    s      input   var dump  words

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