Question

Can someone suggest a simple function that will parse a string into two parts, based on everything before and after the comma? I want to split up a latitude longitude pair so that I have two variables instead of one.

I need to turn this:

-79.5310706,43.6918950

into this:

-79.531070
43.6918950

Answer 1

$parts = explode(",", "-79.5310706,43.6918950");
echo $parts[0];
// -79.5310706

echo $parts[1];
// 43.69189506

Or if you need it to stay as a space-separated string, just str_replace() the comma to a space!

echo str_replace(",", " ", "-79.5310706,43.6918950");
// -79.531070 43.6918950