Use PHP for splitting on spaces and brackets

Question

I have this string in $s:

ben say (#yellow) hey

At the moment I\'m using:

$parts = array_filter(preg_sp         


        

Answer 1

You could split it by Lookahead and Lookbehind Zero-Width Assertions:

$parts = array_filter(preg_split('/\s+|(?=[()])|(?<=[()])/', $s));