Php multiple delimiters in explode

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OHLÁLÁ picture OHLÁLÁ · Feb 10, 2011 · Viewed 159.7k times · Source

I have a problem, I have a string array, and I want to explode in different delimiter. For Example

$example = 'Appel @ Ratte';
$example2 = 'apple vs ratte'

and I need an array which is explode in @ or vs.

I already wrote a solution, but If everybody have a better solution please post here.

private function multiExplode($delimiters,$string) {
    $ary = explode($delimiters[0],$string);
    array_shift($delimiters);
    if($delimiters != NULL) {
        if(count($ary) <2)                      
            $ary = $this->multiExplode($delimiters, $string);
    }
    return  $ary;
}

Answer

SergeS picture SergeS · Feb 10, 2011

Try about using:

$output = preg_split('/ (@|vs) /', $input);

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