Question

I am trying to filter out all characters before the first / sign. I have strings like

ABC/123/...

and I am trying to filter out ABC, 123 and ... into separate strings. I have alsmost succeeded with the parsing of the first letters before the / sign except that the / sign is part of the match, which I don´t want to.

<?php
    $string = "ABC/123/...";
    $pattern = '/.*?\//';
    preg_match($pattern, $string, $matches, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE);
    print_r($matches);  
?>

The letters before the first/ can differ both in length and characters, so a string could also look like EEEE/1111/aaaa.

Answer 1

If you are trying to split the string using / as the delimiter, you can use explode.

$array = explode("/", $string);

And if you are looking only for the first element, you can use array_shift.

$array = array_shift(explode("/", $string));