Split strings and store in array

Question

I have a variable called : $elementname

The print values using :

print_r($elementname) is :

hardwareaccessIPsdefaultgwinterface_nameinterface_rxinterface_txinterface_error

While, var_dump($elementname) is :

string(8) "hardware"
string(6) "access"
string(3) "IPs"
string(9) "defaultgw"
string(14) "interface_name"
string(12) "interface_rx"
string(12) "interface_tx"
string(15) "interface_error"

My question is how may i split this strings and store in an array ?

From the print_r, it looks joined with no delimiter :( There must be a way since var_dump was able to split it in the output.

Answer 1

It probably has whitespace character that is not visible to us. try this myarray will have the splitted data like you wanted

$myarray = preg_split("[\s]",$elementname)