How to explode a multi-line string?

Question

I have a string that has different values on each line:

$matches=\"value1
value2
value3
value4
value5
\";

I want to explode the whole strin

Answer 1

You need to change '\n' to "\n".

From PHP.net:

If the string is enclosed in double-quotes ("), PHP will interpret more escape sequences for special characters:

\n linefeed (LF or 0x0A (10) in ASCII)
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