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split vs. explode in php

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What is the difference between explode and split in php?

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asked Sep 11, 2010 at 9:43

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explode splits strings.

split (replaced with mb_split in newer versions of PHP) also does this, except it has support for splitting using regular expressions.

preg_split also does this and is 25-50% faster and has support for much more powerful Perl-compatible regular expressions.

answered Sep 11, 2010 at 9:49

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split uses regular expressions, while explode works with delimiter characters. Using split is discouraged, because it become deprecated in PHP 5.3.

answered Sep 11, 2010 at 9:46

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explode is generally faster than split ; but its not multibyte character safe.

We will use explode when we are absolutely guaranteed that our input is in single-byte character sets such as ISO-8859-1, and split when we are dealing with user input.

answered Sep 11, 2010 at 9:49

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Both split and explode function splits the string into the array but split is used to split a string using regular expression while explode is used to split a string using another string.

answered Jul 25, 2017 at 6:14

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