Split emojis’s string in PHP

Question

I have a string:

$string = '‍♂️';

And i want to split in:

$array = ['1F602', '1F9DCU-200D-2642-FE0F'];

How can i do it?

I have already try to use some functions but they doesn’t works because they doesn’t split properly emojis with more then one unicode.

Thank you in advance!

I am really not in this topic, and I can't identify the code of those symbols based on this: https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html. But: I see three glyphs, but your array contains two elements. What is your logic behind this split? — ZorgoZ, Sep 16 '18 at 15:42
@ZorgoZ if you try to select the second and the third emoji you can see that actualy they are one emoji symbol. — drkostas, Sep 16 '18 at 15:50
Looking at the string using code from this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/35050002/5159168 it does not seem to be two "items". https://3v4l.org/DBs9Q — Andreas, Sep 16 '18 at 16:00

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 16 '18 at 16:34

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I was about to write the code for splitting emojis using an emoji-unicode dictionary but fortunately the code already exists.

This repo contains everything you need.

You can either use it directly or explore the code and take what you want.

answered Sep 16 '18 at 16:34

drkostas

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