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JavaScript Equivalent of PHP Explode Function

By Amrit Hallan | on Oct 18, 2005 | 1 Comment
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In PHP we can easily break a long string into smaller parts by using the explode() function of PHP. In run rime, this function works like this:

$longstring=”Most of the time Amrit is confused — OK, not most of the time”;
$brokenstring=explode(” “, $longstring);

After the execution of the second command the variable $brokenstring is an array such that,

$brokenstring[0]=”Most”
$brokenstring[1]=”of”
$brokenstring[2]=”the”
$brokenstring[3]=”time”
$brokenstring[4]=”Amrit”
$brokenstring[5]=”is”
$brokenstring[6]=”confused”

and so on. So how do we do it in JavaScript. In JavaScript there is a split() function that achieves the same objective, although the syntax is a bit different.

var longstring=”Most of the time Amrit is confused — OK, not most of the time”;
var brokenstring=longstring.split(” “);

Now the variable brokenstring has all those words.

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Amrit Hallan is a freelance web developer. You can follow the link below to checkout his website.

One Response to “JavaScript Equivalent of PHP Explode Function”

  1. September 7, 2010

    johnpg82 Log in to Reply

    The javascript equivalent is split().

    http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_split.asp

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