I\'m new to regex, and I want to split a string on a delimiter, while keeping that delimiter at the beginning of each array element. I tried it unsuccessfully, and came up w
Use lookahead assertion ((?=)
) to split at the string positions followed by AND
:
$str = 'LOTS OF STUFF AND SOME MORE STUFF AND SOME OTHER STUFF';
$matches = preg_split('/ (?=AND)/', $str);
var_dump($matches);
/*
array(3) {
[0]=>
string(13) "LOTS OF STUFF"
[1]=>
string(19) "AND SOME MORE STUFF"
[2]=>
string(20) "AND SOME OTHER STUFF"
}
*/
Demo. This code removes whitespace preceding AND
; if it's not what you want, just get rid off the whitespace in the regex.