Split String by Multiple Delimiters in PHP

Question

Can strings be parsed into an array based on multiple delimiters? as explained in the code:

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

Answer 1

strtok --> http://php.net/manual/en/function.strtok.php

Answer 2

PHP

$str = "a,b c,d;e f";

$pieces = preg_split('/[, ;]/', $str);

var_dump($pieces);

CodePad.

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"
}