Question

In PHP i have this string variable:

$var = " 00480722                ZF452D041502    13      9900        153370178";

When I do explode, i get something like this:

$var = explode(" ",$var);
echo count($var);

// prints -> 36

so this explode makes an array of 36 elements, most of which are "". How do I shrink all of those multiple spaces in between the data so I can do explode and just get :

$var[0] -> 00480722
$var[1] -> ZF452D041502
...
$var[4] -> 153370178

Answer 1

You could use a regular expression split:

$var = preg_split('/\s+/', trim($var));

This will split on any number of sequential space characters. The trim is used to prevent empty matches at the beginning and/or end of the input string.