So, I have a comma delimited string which I want to split into two strings after count of x commas.
So, if my string was as follows:
temp1, temp2, temp3, temp4, temp5, temp6, temp7, temp8, temp9, temp10
I want to split it into two strings after a count of 4 commas, I would expect:
$string1 = 'temp1, temp2, temp3, temp4, ';
$string2 = 'temp5, temp6, temp7, temp8, temp9, temp10';
How can I achieve this in PHP?
There are lots of ways to do this - one approach would be to explode the string and then implode slices of that array like this:
$x = 4;
$delim = ', ';
$str = 'temp1, temp2, temp3, temp4, temp5, temp6, temp7, temp8, temp9, temp10';
$parts = explode($delim,$str);
$string1 = implode($delim,array_slice($parts,0,$x)) . $delim;
$string2 = implode($delim,array_slice($parts,$x));
To me, this is the cleanest and most readable way to get the job done and does not require a loop.
One other approach is to iterate on each char:
$string = "temp1, temp2, temp3, temp4, temp5, temp6, temp7";
$commacount = 0;
$stringBefore = "";
$stringAfter = "";
$splitHasHappened = false;
foreach (str_split($string) as $char) {
if ($splitHasHappened) {
$stringAfter .= $char;
}
else {
$stringBefore .= $char;
}
if ($char == ",") {
$commacount++;
}
if ($commacount == 4) {
$splitHasHappened = true;
}
}
echo "Before: $stringBefore - After $stringAfter"
You could create a simple Function that takes 2 Arguments (The Comma delimited String and the Index at which to Split. The Result would be a numerically indexed Array with 2 keys: 0 and 1. $array[0] holds the first part and $array1 holds the second part. Below is the function:
<?php
$strings = "temp1, temp2, temp3, temp4, temp5, temp6, temp7, temp8, temp9, temp10";
function splitAtIndex($commaString, $index){
$arrBlended = array();
$arrStrings = preg_split("#,\s?#", $commaString);
if(!empty($arrStrings)){
$partB = array_splice($arrStrings, $index);
$partA = $arrStrings;
$arrBlended[] = implode(", ", $partA) . ", ";
$arrBlended[] = implode(", ", $partB);
}
return $arrBlended;
}
$arrSplitStrings = splitAtIndex($strings, 4);
$string1 = $arrSplitStrings[0]; //<== 'temp1, temp2, temp3, temp4, '
$string2 = $arrSplitStrings[1]; //<== 'temp5, temp6, temp7, temp8, temp9, temp10'
var_dump($arrSplitStrings);
// DUMPS
array (size=2)
0 => string 'temp1, temp2, temp3, temp4, ' (length=28)
1 => string 'temp5, temp6, temp7, temp8, temp9, temp10' (length=41)
Test and Confirm the Result HERE:
you can explode it into an array
$array = explode(",",$string);
for($i=0;$i<4;$i++){
$string1[$i]=$array[$i];
}
$string1 = implode(",",$string1);
for($i=4;$i<count($array);$i++){
$string2[$i]=$array[$i];
}
$string2 = implode(",",$string2);
Just for fun. The {4}
can be changed or substituted with a variable:
preg_match('/([^,]+,){4}/', $string, $matches);
$string1 = $matches[0];
$string2 = str_replace($string1, '', $string);
I prefer not using a loop for this. You would actually want some checking/validation of the input:
<?php
$count = 4;
$str = 'temp1, temp2, temp3, temp4, temp5, temp6, temp7, temp8, temp9, temp10';
$match = preg_match('/^([^,]+,\s?){' . $count . '}/', $str, $matches) ? $matches[0] : false;
if ($match) {
$position = strlen($match);
$str1 = substr($str, 0, $position);
$str2 = substr($str, $position);
}
The solution using str_word_count
,array_slice
, array_filter
and substr
functions:
$str = "temp1, temp2, temp3, temp4, temp5, temp6, temp7, temp8, temp9, temp10";
$comma_number = 4;
// finding the position of 4th comma
$pos = key(array_slice(array_filter(str_word_count($str, 2, ","), function($v){
return $v == ",";
}), $comma_number - 1, 1, true));
$string1 = substr($str, 0, $pos + 2);
$string2 = substr($str, $pos + 2);
var_dump($string1, $string2);
The output:
string(28) "temp1, temp2, temp3, temp4, "
string(41) "temp5, temp6, temp7, temp8, temp9, temp10"
This Great For Me to split the specific comma sperated count values and add the br tag
<?php
$string='temp1, temp2, temp3, temp4, temp5, temp6, temp7, temp8, temp9, temp10';
$delim = ',';
$x = 4;
$parts = explode($delim,$string);
$numberofloop=ceil(Count($parts)/$x);
for($i=0,$j=0;$i<$numberofloop;$i++){
echo implode($delim,array_slice($parts,$j,$x))."<br>";
$j=$j+$x;
}
?>