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# preg_split

(PHP 3 >= 3.0.9, PHP 4, PHP 5)

preg_split -- Split string by a regular expression

## Descrição

array preg_split ( string pattern, string subject [, int limit [, int flags]] )

Split the given string by a regular expression.

## Parâmetros

`pattern`

  The pattern to search for, as a string.

`subject`

  The input string.

`limit`

  If specified, then only substrings up to `limit` are returned, and if `limit` is -1, it actually means "no limit", which is useful for specifying the `flags`.

`flags`

  `flags` can be any combination of the following flags (combined with bitwise | operator):

  `PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY`

    If this flag is set, only non-empty pieces will be returned by preg_split().

  `PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE`

    If this flag is set, parenthesized expression in the delimiter pattern will be captured and returned as well.

  `PREG_SPLIT_OFFSET_CAPTURE`

    If this flag is set, for every occurring match the appendant string offset will also be returned. Note that this changes the return value in an array where every element is an array consisting of the matched string at offset `0` and its string offset into `subject` at offset `1`.

## Valores de retornado

Returns an array containing substrings of `subject` split along boundaries matched by `pattern`.

## Histórico

Versão | Descrição
--- | ---
4.3.0 | The `PREG_SPLIT_OFFSET_CAPTURE` was added
4.0.5 | The `PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE` was added
4.0.0 | The `flags` parameter was added

## Exemplos

Exemplo 1. preg_split() example : Get the parts of a search string
`<?php // split the phrase by any number of commas or space characters, // which include " ", \r, \t, \n and \f $keywords = preg_split("/[\s,]+/", "hypertext language, programming"); ?>`

Exemplo 2. Splitting a string into component characters
`<?php $str = 'string'; $chars = preg_split('//', $str, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY); print_r($chars); ?>`

Exemplo 3. Splitting a string into matches and their offsets
`<?php $str = 'hypertext language programming'; $chars = preg_split('/ /', $str, -1, PREG_SPLIT_OFFSET_CAPTURE); print_r($chars); ?>`
O exemplo acima irá imprimir:
    Array
    (
        [0] => Array
            (
                [0] => hypertext
                [1] => 0
            )

        [1] => Array
            (
                [0] => language
                [1] => 10
            )

        [2] => Array
            (
                [0] => programming
                [1] => 19
            )

    )

## Notas

> Dica: If you don't need the power of regular expressions, you can choose faster (albeit simpler) alternatives like explode() or str_split().

## Veja também

spliti()
split()
implode()
preg_match()
preg_match_all()
preg_replace()

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