explode

Written by Balazs Halasy, 02/05/2004 Updated 05/04/2005 by Balazs Halasy

Summary

Splits the input string and returns it as an array of strings.

Usage

input|explode( separator )

Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Required
separator	string	Split sequence.	Yes.

Returns

An array of strings.

Description

This operator takes a string as input and returns an array of strings. Each element in the array will be a part of the input string extracted on the basis of the specified sequence of split characters.

Examples

Example 1

{'All-your-base-are-belong-to-us!'|explode( '-' )}

The following array will be returned: ( 'All', 'your', 'base', 'are', 'belong', 'to', 'us!' ).

Contributors

Balazs Halasy Author 02/05/2004 Updated 05/04/2005
Pike Commenter 02/13/2009

Comments (1 historical)

Written by readers of the earlier documentation sites, kept as they were.

need the pipe

pike · 02/13/2009 01:00 pm

note, explode( input, separator ) does not work in 3.10.
only the pipe syntax works, as documented.

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