explode() on Japanese string

Question

I have to use the explode() function on Japanese text but it doesn\'t work.

Here is an example of what I have

$string = \'私　は　イタリア　人　です\';
$string = expl         


        

Answer 1

That is for the simple reason that you do not have a space character here. You have an "IDEOGRAPHIC SPACE" character with the hex code "e3 80 80".

If you use that as your delimiter, it will work.