WebDev: JavaScript equivalent of PHP explode function

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-- Amrit

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Article Title: JavaScript equivalent of PHP explode function Category: WebDev Copyright © 2005 Amrit Hallan

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In PHP we can easily break a long string into smaller parts by using the explode() function of PHP. In run rime, this function works like this:

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$longstring="Most of the time Amrit is confused -- OK, not most of the time"; $brokenstring=explode(" ", $longstring);

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After the execution of the second command the variable $brokenstring is an array such that,

$brokenstring[0]="Most" $brokenstring[1]="of" $brokenstring[2]="the" $brokenstring[3]="time" $brokenstring[4]="Amrit" $brokenstring[5]="is" $brokenstring[6]="confused"

and so on. So how do we do it in JavaScript. In JavaScript there is a split() function that achieves the same objective, although the syntax is a bit different.

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var longstring="Most of the time Amrit is confused -- OK, not most of the time"; var brokenstring=longstring.split(" ");

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Now the variable brokenstring has all those words.

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About the author: ===============================================

Amrit Hallan is a freelance copywriter, and a website content writer. He also dabbles with PHP and HTML. For more tips and tricks in PHP, JavaScripting, XML, CSS designing and HTML, visit his blog at www.aboutwebdesigning.com

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