strtok
(PHP 4, PHP 5)
strtok — Tokenize string
Description
string strtok
( string $str
, string $token
)
Note that only the first call to strtok uses the string argument.
Every subsequent call to strtok only needs the token to use, as
it keeps track of where it is in the current string. To start
over, or to tokenize a new string you simply call strtok with the
string argument again to initialize it. Note that you may put
multiple tokens in the token parameter. The string will be
tokenized when any one of the characters in the argument are
found.
Parameters
-
str
-
The string being split up into smaller strings (tokens).
-
token
-
The delimiter used when splitting up str
.
Examples
Example #1 strtok() example
<?php
$string = "This is\tan example\nstring";
$tok = strtok($string, " \n\t");
while ($tok !== false) {
echo "Word=$tok<br />";
$tok = strtok(" \n\t");
}
?>
The behavior when an empty part was found changed with PHP 4.1.0. The old
behavior returned an empty string, while the new, correct, behavior
simply skips the part of the string:
Example #2 Old strtok() behavior
<?php
$first_token = strtok('/something', '/');
$second_token = strtok('/');
var_dump($first_token, $second_token);
?>
The above example will output:
string(0) ""
string(9) "something"
Example #3 New strtok() behavior
<?php
$first_token = strtok('/something', '/');
$second_token = strtok('/');
var_dump($first_token, $second_token);
?>
The above example will output:
string(9) "something"
bool(false)
Notes
WarningThis function may
return Boolean FALSE, but may also return a non-Boolean value which
evaluates to FALSE, such as 0 or
"". Please read the section on Booleans for more
information. Use the ===
operator for testing the return value of this
function.
strstr
