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.





One Response to “JavaScript Equivalent of PHP Explode Function”
September 7, 2010
johnpg82The javascript equivalent is split().
http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_split.asp