PHP REGEX - text to array by preg_split when line breaks

Question

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need help splitting an array

Array Example

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array ( [0] => :some normal text :some long text here, and so on... sometimes i'm breaking down and... :some normal text :some normal text ) 

ok now using

 preg_split( '#\n(?!s)#' , $text ); 

I get

 [0] => Array ( [0] => some normal text [1] => some long text here, and so on... sometimes [2] => some normal text [3] => some normal text ) 

I want to get this:

 [0] => Array ( [0] => some normal text [1] => some long text here, and so on... sometimes i'm breaking down and... [2] => some normal text [3] => some normal text ) 

that Regex can get the whole line, and also split it into line breaks !?

Answer 1

Here is an example that works even if you have a colon character embedded inside the line (but not at the beginning of the line):

 $input = ":some normal text :some long text here, and so on... sometimes i'm breaking: down and... :some normal text :some normal text"; $array = preg_split('/$\R?^:/m', $input); print_r($array); 

result:

 Array ( [0] => some normal text [1] => some long text here, and so on... sometimes i'm breaking: down and... [2] => some normal text [3] => some normal text ) 

Answer 2

"line break" is not defined. Windows uses only CR + LF (\ r \ n), Linux LF (\ n), OSX CR ​​(\ r).

There is a little-known special character \ R in preg_ * regular exceptions that matches all three:

 preg_match('/^\R$/', "\r\n"); // 1 

Answer 3

file() reads a file in an array.

Answer 4

If you divide the array by a character: ..

 print_r(preg_split('/:/', $input)); 

Answer 5

 $lines = explode("\n", $text);