explode
on empty string returns array count as 1.
$consName =explode("|",$docDet['doc_cons_filename']);
count($consName);
If there is some value in $docDet['doc_cons_filename']
like ab|cd|de
then count($consName)
returns 3.
But its returning 1 if $docDet['doc_cons_filename']
has empty value.
is it possible to return count as 0 if we perform count(explode("|",$docDet['doc_cons_filename']))
where $docDet['doc_cons_filename'] = ""
Can anyone help me with solution?
$arr = array();
$str = "yes you are!";
if($i = substr_count($str,"|"))
$arr = explode("|", $str, $i+1);
echo count($arr);
The solution would be to count explicitly how many times separator is found within your string. See substr_count()