Question

Roan

I am currently looking into spliting a long row,from table1 and insert in multiple columns in another table2, the string the values are separated by a “/” and “-“.
is there a way to split a cell values at the occurrence of the “/” or “-” and insert in to the existing table2 in their separate columns?

I’ve a table with entries like this.

To turn this: table1

id&nbsp&nbsp value

1&nbsp&nbsp FO910/test123/KO9200-7890/asdasd23423/ …

2&nbsp&nbsp ML45/uj890-892ht/kjsl923023/sdsds-wer3434 ..

into this: table2

id&nbsp&nbsp value1&nbsp&nbsp value2 …

1&nbsp&nbsp F0910&nbsp&nbsp test123

2&nbsp&nbsp ML45&nbsp&nbsp UJ890

any help will be appreciated greatly

Answer 1

Try using

$data= "FO910/test123/KO9200-7890/asdasd23423"

$row = preg_split("/[\/\-]/", $data);
/* example output
array(1)
(
    [0] => string(5) "FO910"
    [1] => string(7) "test123"
    [2] => string(6) "KO9200"
    [3] => string(4) "7890"
    [4] => string(12) "asdasd23423"
) */

foreach($col in $row )
{ 
   echo '<td>'.$col.'</td>';
}