How can I explode and trim whitespace?
PhpExplodeTrimHigher Order-FunctionsPhp Problem Overview
For example, I would like to create an array from the elements in this string:
$str = 'red, green, blue ,orange';
I know you can explode and loop through them and trim:
$arr = explode(',', $str);
foreach ($arr as $value) {
$new_arr[] = trim($value);
}
But I feel like there's a one line approach that can handle this. Any ideas?
Php Solutions
Solution 1 - Php
You can do the following using array_map:
$new_arr = array_map('trim', explode(',', $str));
Solution 2 - Php
An improved answer
preg_split ('/(\s*,*\s*)*,+(\s*,*\s*)*/', 'red, green thing ,,
,, blue ,orange');
Result:
Array
(
[0] => red
[1] => green thing
[2] => blue
[3] => orange
)
This:
- Splits on commas only
- Trims white spaces from each item.
- Ignores empty items
- Does not split an item with internal spaces like "green thing"
Solution 3 - Php
The following also takes care of white-spaces at start/end of the input string:
$new_arr = preg_split('/\s*,\s*/', trim($str));
and this is a minimal test with white-spaces in every sensible position:
$str = ' first , second , third , fourth, fifth ';
$new_arr = preg_split('/\s*,\s*/', trim($str));
var_export($str);
Solution 4 - Php
this how you replace and explode in a single line of code
$str = 'red, green, blue ,orange';
$new_string = explode(',',preg_replace('/\s+/', '', $str));
will output the results as
Array
(
[0] => red
[1] => green
[2] => blue
[3] => orange
)
Solution 5 - Php
By combining some of the principals in the existing answers I came up with
preg_split ('/\s*,+\s*/', 'red, green thing ,, ,, blue ,orange', NULL, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
The reasoning behind it is that I found a bug in this answer, where if there is a comma at the end of the string it'll return a blank element in the array. i.e.
preg_split ('/(\s*,*\s*)*,+(\s*,*\s*)*/', 'red, green thing ,, ,, blue ,orange,');
Results in
Array
(
[0] => red
[1] => green thing
[2] => blue
[3] => orange
[4] => ''
)
You can fix this by using PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY as mentioned in this answer to remove it, but once you are doing that there is technically no need to remove consecutive commas via the regex, thus the shortened expression
Solution 6 - Php
You can also do this with a one line regex
preg_split('@(?:\s*,\s*|^\s*|\s*$)@', $str, NULL, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
Solution 7 - Php
try this:
$str = preg_replace("/\s*,\s*/", ",", 'red, green, blue ,orange');
Solution 8 - Php
SPECIFICALLY for the OP's sample string, because each substring to be matched is a single word, you can use str_word_count().
Code: (Demo)
$str = ' red, green, blue ,orange ';
var_export(str_word_count($str,1)); // 1 means return all words in an indexed array
Output:
array (
0 => 'red',
1 => 'green',
2 => 'blue',
3 => 'orange',
)
This can also be adapted for substrings beyond letters (and some hyphens and apostrophes -- if you read the fine print) by adding the necessary characters to the character mask / 3rd parameter.
Code: (Demo)
$str = " , Number1 , 234, 0 ,4heaven's-sake , ";
var_export(str_word_count($str,1,'0..9'));
Output:
array (
0 => 'Number1',
1 => '234',
2 => '0',
3 => '4heaven\'s-sake',
)
Again, I am treating this question very narrowly because of the sample string, but this will provide the same desired output:
Code: (Demo)
$str = ' red, green, blue ,orange ';
var_export(preg_match_all('/[^, ]+/',$str,$out)?$out[0]:'fail');
Solution 9 - Php
You can use preg_split() for that.
$bar = preg_split ('/[,\s]+/', $str);
print_r ($bar);
/* Result:
Array
(
[0] => red
[1] => green
[2] => blue
[3] => orange
)
*/
Solution 10 - Php
$str = str_replace(" ","", $str);
Solution 11 - Php
> trim and explode
$str = 'red, green, blue ,orange';
$str = trim($str);
$strArray = explode(',',$str);
print_r($strArray);