Split string with multiple delimiters in PHP

Question

Is it possible to parse strings in an array based on multiple delimiters? as described in the code:

$str ="a,bc,d;ef"; //What i want is to convert this string into array //using the delimiters space, comma, semicolon 

Answer 1

Php

 $str = "a,bc,d;ef"; $pieces = preg_split('/[, ;]/', $str); var_dump($pieces); 

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Output

 array(6) { [0]=> string(1) "a" [1]=> string(1) "b" [2]=> string(1) "c" [3]=> string(1) "d" [4]=> string(1) "e" [5]=> string(1) "f" } 

Answer 2

strtok → http://php.net/manual/en/function.strtok.php