Explode only by last delimiter

Question

is there a way to use explode function to explode only by last delimiter occurrence?

$string = "one_two_  ... _three_four";

$explodeResultArray = e         


        

Answer 1

Straightforward:

$parts = explode('_', $string);
$last = array_pop($parts);
$parts = array(implode('_', $parts), $last);
echo $parts[0]; // outputs "one_two_three"

Regular expressions:

$parts = preg_split('~_(?=[^_]*$)~', $string);
echo $parts[0]; // outputs "one_two_three"

String reverse:

$reversedParts = explode('_', strrev($string), 2);
echo strrev($reversedParts[0]); // outputs "four"

Answer 2

I chose to use substring becasue you want a string up to a particular point:

$string = "one_two_three_four_five_six_seven";
$part1 = substr("$string",0, strrpos($string,'_'));
$part2 = substr("$string", (strrpos($string,'_') + 1));
var_dump($part1,$part2);

RESULTS:

string(27) "one_two_three_four_five_six"
string(5) "seven"

Answer 3

<?php
$lastPos = strrpos($string, '_');
if ($lastPos !== false) {
    $start = substr($string, 0, $lastPos);
    $end = substr($string, $lastPos+1);
} else {
    // no delimeter found!
}

If you only care about the last part, it's even simpler.

<?php
$end = substr(strrchr($string, '_'), 1);

Answer 4

// reverse $string right after definition
$string = "one_two_three_four_five_six";
$string = implode("_",array_reverse(explode("_",$string)));

// chop off the first part
list($result, $string) = explode("_", $string, 2);

echo "$result --- $string";

Output:

six --- five_four_three_two_one 

Answer 5

I had similar needs and inspired by @NLZ's answer I've made a reusable function with the same features as regular explode(), but backwards (although I added an option to reverse the array order contra regular explode()):

function backward_explode($delimiter, $string, $limit = null, $keep_order = true) {
    if ((string)$delimiter === "") {
        return false;
    }

    if ($limit === 0 || $limit === 1) {
        return array($string);
    }

    $explode = explode($delimiter, $string);

    if ($limit === null || $limit === count($explode)) {
        return $keep_order? $explode : array_reverse($explode);
    }

    $parts = array();

    if ($limit > 0) {
        for ($i = 1; $i < $limit; $i++) {
            $parts[] = array_pop($explode);
        }
        $remainder = implode($delimiter, $explode);
        $parts[] = $remainder;
        if ($keep_order) {
            $parts = array_reverse($parts);
        }
    } else {
        if (strpos($string, $delimiter) === false) {
            return array();
        }
        $parts = $explode;
        array_splice($parts, 0, abs($limit));
        if (!$keep_order) {
            $parts = array_reverse($parts);
        }
    }

    return $parts;
}

(Also as a gist.)

So with:

$string = 'one two three four';
var_dump(backward_explode(' ', $string));
var_dump(backward_explode(' ', $string, 2));
var_dump(backward_explode(' ', $string, 3));
var_dump(backward_explode(' ', $string, 2, false));
var_dump(backward_explode(' ', $string, -1));
var_dump(backward_explode(' ', $string, 1)); // same as with $limit = 0
var_dump(backward_explode('#', $string, -2));
var_dump(backward_explode('', $string, 3));

We get:

array (size=4)
  0 => string 'one' (length=3)
  1 => string 'two' (length=3)
  2 => string 'three' (length=5)
  3 => string 'four' (length=4)
array (size=2)
  0 => string 'one two three' (length=13)
  1 => string 'four' (length=4)
array (size=3)
  0 => string 'one two' (length=7)
  1 => string 'three' (length=5)
  2 => string 'four' (length=4)
array (size=2)
  0 => string 'four' (length=4)
  1 => string 'one two three' (length=13)
array (size=3)
  0 => string 'two' (length=3)
  1 => string 'three' (length=5)
  2 => string 'four' (length=4)
array (size=1)
  0 => string 'one two three four' (length=18)
array (size=0)
  empty
boolean false