What is the difference between explode and split in php?
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David Refoua
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possible duplicate of [What is the difference between split() and explode()?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3640990/what-is-the-difference-between-split-and-explode) – Narkha Aug 06 '15 at 07:46
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explode splits strings.
splitmb_split in newer versions of PHP) also does this, except it has support for splitting using regular expressions.
preg_split also does this and is 25-50% faster and has support for much more powerful Perl-compatible regular expressions.
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split uses regular expressions, while explode works with delimiter characters. Using split is discouraged, because it become deprecated in PHP 5.3.
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1sir it may,in php 5.3 split use with preg_split().? may i right sir? – Tejas Patel Sep 11 '10 at 09:53
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3yes, you should use preg_split() if you want to split the string with regular expressions – tamasd Sep 11 '10 at 10:42
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explode is generally faster than split ; but its not multibyte character safe.
We will use explode when we are absolutely guaranteed that our input is in single-byte character sets such as ISO-8859-1, and split when we are dealing with user input.
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Both split and explode function splits the string into the array but split is used to split a string using regular expression while explode is used to split a string using another string.
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