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How do I split a string by . delimiter in PHP? For example, if I have the string "a.b", how do I get "a"?
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explode does the job:
$parts = explode('.', $string);
You can also directly fetch parts of the result into variables:
list($part1, $part2) = explode('.', $string);
$array = explode('.',$string);
Returns an array of split elements.
$string_val = 'a.b';
$parts = explode('.', $string_val);
print_r($parts);
explode('.', 'a.b');
The following will return you the "a" letter:
$a = array_shift(explode('.', 'a.b'));
explode('.', $string)
If you know your string has a fixed number of components you could use something like
list($a, $b) = explode('.', 'object.attribute');
echo $a;
echo $b;
Prints:
object
attribute
to explode with '.' use
explode('\\.','a.b');