In this tutorial we will see How To Split Sentence Into Words in PHP. PHP explode() Function and PHP preg_split() Function can be used to split a complete sentence into separate array of words.
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PHP explode() Function
PHP explode() Function splits the string into an array of words or characters.
In this example explode() Function is used to split the sentence into words..
<?php
$string = "Learn PHP on HowToCodeSchool.com";
$array = explode(" ", $string);
echo $array[0];
echo $array[1];
echo $array[2];
echo $array[3];
?>
In above code of PHP, a sentence is split into four words, stored in an array, each word is stored in a separate location in an array.
All four words are separately displayed.
PHP preg_split() Function
PHP preg_split() Function splits a sentence into words with the help of regular expression.
In second example, preg_split() function is also used to split the sentence into four different words.
<?php
$string = "Learn PHP on HowToCodeSchool.com";
$array = preg_split("/[^\w]*([\s]+[^\w]*|$)/", $string, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
echo $array[0];
echo $array[1];
echo $array[2];
echo $array[3];
?>
/[^\w]*([\s]+[^\w]*|$)/ is the regular expression used in this example to split the sentence into words.