Split a string into 2 variables in PHP

Question

I have a string with the following format: city (Country) and I would like to separate the city and the country and store the values in 2 different variables.

I tried the following and it is working to store the city but not for the country.

<?php

$citysearch = "Madrid (Spain)";
echo $citysearch;

$citylen = strlen( $citysearch );
for( $i = 0; $i <= $citylen; $i++ )
{
  $char = substr( $citysearch, $i, 1 );
  if ($char <> "(")
  {
    echo $city. "<br>"; 
    $city = $city .$char;
    if ($char == " ")
    {
      break;
    } 
  }
  if ($char <> ")")
  {
    echo $country. "<br>"; 
    $country = $country .$char;
    if ($char == ")")
    {
      break;
    } 
  }
}

echo "This is the city:" .$city;
echo "This is the country:" . $country;;

?>

Any help would be highly appreciated.

If it's always in the same format, have a look at preg_match. — Jonnix
– Jonnix, Commented May 11, 2016 at 16:09

clemens321 · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-11 16:30:24Z

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You can use a simple regex to solve this:

preg_match('/^(\w*)\s\((\w*)\)$/', $citysearch, $matches);
var_dump($matches);
echo "city: ".$matches[1]."\n";
echo "country: ".$matches[2]."\n";

Update:
Or without regex:

$citysearch = 'Madrid (Spain)';
$pos = strpos($citysearch, ' (');
$city = substr($citysearch, 0, $pos);
$country = substr($citysearch, $pos + 2, -1);

edited May 11, 2016 at 16:30

answered May 11, 2016 at 16:10

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Ani Menon · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-11 16:26:55Z

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Using explode in php :

<?php
$citysearch = "Madrid (Spain)";
$myArray = explode('(', $citysearch);
print($myArray[0]);
print(rtrim($myArray[1], ")"));
?>

Using preg_split:

<?php
$citysearch = "Madrid (Spain)";
$iparr = preg_split ("/\(/", rtrim($citysearch, ")"));
print($iparr[0]);
print($iparr[1]);
?>

Output:

Madrid Spain

edited May 11, 2016 at 16:26

answered May 11, 2016 at 16:19

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Murad Hasan · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-11 16:15:56Z

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I think you should go with this simple example:

Just explode the string with explode function, then store the city in the $city variable and store the country in $country variable.

After exploding the string you will get an array, where in index 0 is the value Madrid and index 1 is (Spain). So its easy to get the city using $div[0], but for country you need to use a spacial function called trim for clearing the (). and use $div[1] to get the country.

Example:

$citysearch = "Madrid (Spain)";
$div = explode(" ", $citysearch);

echo $city = $div[0]; //Madrid
echo $country = trim($div[1], "()"); //Spain

answered May 11, 2016 at 16:15

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Naresh Kumar · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-11 16:17:34Z

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using explode

$citysearch = "Madrid (Spain)";
$ar =explode("(",$citysearch,2);
$ar[1]=rtrim($ar[1],")");
$city = $ar[0];
$country = $ar[1];

answered May 11, 2016 at 16:17

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