Search in a string and create an array in PHP

Question

How to convert this string

 *|text:student:required|* 

( * and | is part of string ) into array like this

['text' ,'student','required']  

Answer 1

Here you go:

$str = "|text:student:required|";
$str = trim($str,"|");
$str = trim($str,"*");
$x = explode(':',$str);
print_r($x);die;

Answer 2

try the following:

$str = '*|text:student:required|*';
$str = preg_replace("/[|*]/", '', $str);
$arr = explode(':', $str);

this simply removes the | AND * from the string using preg_replace() and the turns the string into an array using explode

Answer 3

The shortest one with preg_split function:

$s = '*|text:student:required|* ';
$result = preg_split('/[*:| ]+/', $s, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);

print_r($result);

The output:

Array
(
    [0] => text
    [1] => student
    [2] => required
)

Answer 4

$string = "*|text:student:required|";
$string = str_replace("*", "", str_replace("|","", $string));
$array = explode(':', $string);