How to split a string by multiple delimiters in PHP?

Question

\"something here ; and there, oh,that\'s all!\"

I want to split it by ; and ,

so after processing should get:

Answer 1

The split() PHP function allows the delimiter to be a regular expression. Unfortunately it's deprecated and will be removed in PHP7!

The preg_split() function should be OK, and it returns an array:

$results = preg_split('/[;,]/', $string);

There are a few extra optional parameters which may be useful to you.

Is the first delimiter character in your edited example actually a 2 byte Unicode character?

Perhaps the preg_slit() function is treating the delimiter as three characters and splitting between the characters of the unicode (Chinese?) 'character'