Split a String into Two Variables By Separator [duplicate]

Question

I have a string that looks like this

$string = 'Name of product | 34';

I want to break it into two new strings that'll be this:

$productName = 'Name of product';
$productPrice = '34';

What is the best way to do that?

user142162 · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-06 00:18:49Z

5

You can do this quite simply using list() and explode():

list($productName, $productPrice) = explode(" | ", $string);

$productName    string(15) "Name of product"
$productPrice   string(2) "34"

answered Apr 6, 2012 at 0:18

user142162

Sign up to request clarification or add additional context in comments.

Comments

Elen · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-06 00:20:09Z

4

$newarray = explode(" | ", $string);
echo $newarray[0]; //Name of product
echo $newarray[1]; //34

answered Apr 6, 2012 at 0:20

Elen

2,3433 gold badges24 silver badges47 bronze badges

what if we don't have idea how long string may be, and how many parts we may have ?

@Ans - you should count() or sizeof() array and get the number of elements