Split string programmatically php

Question

I have this 2 strings:

String 1:

AV. LOS TALLERES NRO. 4898 URB. EL NARANJAL LIMA - LIMA - INDEPENDENCIA

String 2:

LA JOYA MZA. I LOTE. 13 -B (PLAZA PRINCIPAL DE LA JOYA) AREQUIPA - AREQUIPA - LA JOYA

I want to output only from 1st string:

LIMA - LIMA - INDEPENDENCIA

and from 2nd string:

AREQUIPA - AREQUIPA - LA JOYA

I'm receiving those strings and I have to show only that part. There're always 3 parts and separated with - but the text changes, for example: what I receive could be one of:

AREQUIPA - AREQUIPA - AREQUIPA

LIMA - LIMA - ATE

PROV. CONST. DEL CALLAO - PROV. CONST. DEL CALLAO - CALLAO

AREQUIPA - CAMANA - CAMANA

How can I split them? I tried counting from the end to the last space after the -, but I feel there is a better way.

Is there only ever one word before the first `-`? Or can you have two words like in `LA JOYA`? Because that could make it quite complex. — Obsidian Age, Aug 19 '19 at 22:29
Have you tried anything? Maybe a [string function](https://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.strings.php) like [`strtok`](https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strtok.php)? — ficuscr, Aug 19 '19 at 22:34
Possible duplicate of [PHP: Split string](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5159086/php-split-string) — ficuscr, Aug 19 '19 at 22:36

Jorge Lima · Answer 1 · 2019-08-20T00:29:49.383

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I think this might help you:

We need to separate the strings with ' - ':

$string = "AV. LOS TALLERES NRO. 4898 URB. EL NARANJAL LIMA - LIMA - INDEPENDENCIA";
$farr = explode(' - ',$string);

=> [
     "AV. LOS TALLERES NRO. 4898 URB. EL NARANJAL LIMA",
     "LIMA",
     "INDEPENDENCIA",
   ]

Since you need the last part of the first portion on the string:

$sarr = explode(' ',$farr[0]);

=> [
     "AV.",
     "LOS",
     "TALLERES",
     "NRO.",
     "4898",
     "URB.",
     "EL",
     "NARANJAL",
     "LIMA",
   ]

3 print with:

echo end($sarr).' - '.$farr[1].' - '.$farr[2]

In the first, I'm using end to print only the last part of the second array. If you want to print more parts you'll need to change it

edited Aug 20 '19 at 00:29

answered Aug 19 '19 at 22:48

Jorge Lima

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And what happend if i have "PROV. CONST. DEL CALLAO - PROV. CONST. DEL CALLAO - PROV. CONST. DEL CALLAO"? – Oscar Aug 19 '19 at 23:27
@Oscar following my example it will print: **CALLAO - PROV. CONST. DEL CALLAO - PROV. CONST. DEL CALLAO**. My code will split the sting in three parts by ' - ' then it will split the first position of the array by the ' ' and finally it will print the last position of the second split, the second position of the first split and the last position of the first split. – Jorge Lima Aug 20 '19 at 00:39

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 12 '19 at 08:01

*Current string -

$String1="AV. LOS TALLERES NRO. 4898 URB. EL NARANJAL LIMA - LIMA - INDEPENDENCIA";

$String2="LA JOYA MZA. I LOTE. 13 -B (PLAZA PRINCIPAL DE LA JOYA) AREQUIPA - AREQUIPA - LA JOYA";

*We need to split string to array

$arr1 = explode('-',$String1);

$arr2 = explode(') ',$String2);

*Create new string

$String1 = substr($arr1[0],-5).' - '.$arr1[1].' - '.$arr1[2];

$String2 = $arr2[1];

*Print final make new string

echo $String1; echo '<br>';

echo $String2;

Split string programmatically php

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