I want to separate a string with a whitespaces based on the pattern I want. In every two words and sometimes three. For example:
$string = 'marketplace';
become
$string = 'mark et pl ace';
I know that preg_replace can do this but I don't know the pattern. Can anybody tell me how to do it? Thanks
If you want to use preg_replace...., however @billyonecan's str_split is probably a better way.
preg_replace('/(..)/','$1 ', $string);
trim(...) for the last space.
/(.{n})/ eg: /(.{3})/ also if the original string is an exact multiple of 'n' in length as Joop points out you probably want to rtrim() the result.
/(.{3})(.{2})/ with a replacement pattern of '$1 $2 '. That said, if you always want the same length of split throughout the string but different for different strings see my comment above. If you are varying the length within the string and especially if it is not in a repeating manner you may want to resort to a different approach.this?
$string = 'market';
echo implode(" ",str_split($string,2));
This pattern should work with preg_replace:
$result = preg_replace("/(\\w{2})/uim", "$1 ", $string);
example:
Just use
implode(" ",str_split($string, 2))
Here the important code is
<?php
$string = "market";
echo implode(" ",str_split($string, 2));
?>
str_split converts the $string to an array which contents packs of 2 characters.
then implode will join the arrays with spaces b/w all array values.
Use this function. Just decide in which steps the spaces should be placed.
function split_by_position($string, $position){
$splitted = str_split($string, $position);
foreach($splitted as $part){
$result .= $part.' ';
}
echo $result;
}
$string = 'market';
echo split_by_position($string, 2);
billyonecan's solution really looks better and for sure shorter. I suggest you to use his one. ^^
$string = implode(' ', str_split($string, 2));