Creating an array from a pipe-delimited string Perl-compatible Regular Expression functions

<?php

$query_string = “ 123 | 456 | 789 “;

$pipe_list = preg_split("/\|/",$query_string); // Create an array of strings

while ( list($key,$value) = each($pipe_list)) { // for each element in the array...

… your code here …

?>

Create an array from pipe demimited string

• Split string by a regular expression.

• Returns an array containing substrings.

• The syntax closely resembles Perl.

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